Celebrating the Best of Urdu Poetry - Softcover

Singh, Khushwant

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9780143430087: Celebrating the Best of Urdu Poetry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143430084 ISBN 13: 9780143430087

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA PVT.LTD., 2011

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Urdu is a beautiful language and it has earned fame for its beautiful poetry. Celebrating The Best of Urdu Poetry is a tribute to the language and a treat for the lovers of Urdu shaayri. for the past two centuries, there have been many known and unknown legendary Urdu poets, who have contributed innumerable poetic works. This book is an attempt by the author, to present a collection of these poems in one place for Urdu poetry fans. Urdu is a rich language which evolved as a mixture of many languages such as Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Sanskrit, Dakni and Braj. Though it was passionately patronized by the Muslim rulers and nawabs, unfortunately this language has lost its significance and it is almost into the stages of extinction. This book is a humble attempt to rekindle the heritage of this language and bring out the best of its poetry in order to make the glory of this language familiar to the world. Celebrating The Best of Urdu Poetry has been authored by Khushwant Singh and translated by Kamna Prasad, who themselves are great admirers of Urdu and poetry. This book was published in 2011 by Penguin India. It is available in paperback.

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Khushwant Singh is India's best-known writer and columnist. He was founder-editor of Yojna, and has been editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and the Hindustan Times. He is also the author of several books, which includes the novels Train to Pakistan, Delhi and The Company of Women; the classic two-volume A History of the Sikhs; and a number of translations and non-fiction books on Sikh religion and culture, Delhi, nature and current affairs. His autobiography, Truth, Love and a Little Malice, was published in 2002. Khushwant Singh was a Member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974, but returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple by the Indian Army. Kamna Prasad is the editor of the festschrift Khushwant Singh: An Icon of Our Age.

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