In this episode of the Poem of the Week series of the Rekhta Podcast, our host Aamir Azher recites a beautiful nazm by One of the most popular Urdu poets ever, known for his intense romantic poetry, Akhtar Shirani. Akhtar Sherani's real name was Dawood Khan. At a time when Urdu literature and criticism was dominated by the progressive movement, Akhtar Shirani’s poetry clearly digressed and made a mark of its own, and was also sidelined due to not fitting in the vogue.

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