QASEEDA, or panegyric ode, is a genre in Urdu and Persian poetry that is not so easy, albeit it is almost a dead genre these days. Qaseeda poses much difficulty to the poets who try their hand at it ...

THOUGH Mawazna-i-Anees-o-Dabeer is sometimes regarded as Shibli No’mani’s best critical work, it is a fact that Mawazna is sometimes criticised for being partisan as Shibli has clearly tilted the ...