Lives to eat, thrives on history and feeds her soul with
Urdu poetry.
Her next young adult novel, That Thing We Call a Heart, will be out in May 2017, and is set to a soundtrack of
Urdu poetry and Radiohead.
Persian still retained its predominance as late as the period of the last Mughal emperor, when Ghalib, one of the most brilliant Urdu poets, still prided himself on his Persian odes and looked upon
his Urdu poetry with shame.
Not exact matches
Hyderabad, under the Muslim dynasty of the Nizams, had become a center of Muslim culture and
Urdu literature and
poetry after the establishment of Usmania University, the first institution to use
Urdu as the medium of instruction in higher education.