Coming from a lineage of writers, Javed Akhtar—son of renowned Urdu poet and lyricist Jan Nisar Akhtar—released his first poetry book, Tarkash (Quiver), a collection of 52 ghazals and nazms, in 1995.
Nizar Qabbani is one of them. But who was Qabbani and why is his legacy important?Qabbani was a poet who changed the art form in the Arab world forever. Not only did he use the medium to touch on ...
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