Poetry picks: Read Ishrat Afreen's feminist Urdu poetry in translation
An excerpt from ‘Humsafar: The World of Urdu Poetry’, by Hitesh Gupta Aadil.
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An excerpt from ‘Humsafar: The World of Urdu Poetry’, by Hitesh Gupta Aadil.
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Ishrat Afreen remarkably and uniquely combines the classicism of her predecessors and the more conscious feminists. She remains forgotten in her own country, Pakistan, but her poetic legacy is secure, writes Raza Naeem.