ROZ EK SHER

हमारे आगे तेरा जब किसी ने नाम लिया
दिले सितमज़दा को हमने थाम-थाम लिया
-मीर

hamaare aage teraa jab kisii ne naam liyaa
dile sitamzadaa ko hamne thaam thaam liyaa
-Mir

Everytime your name is mentioned
My heart throbs with pain

English adaptation by Manish Modi
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MUQADDMA-E-SHER-O-SHAIRI
A Most Influential Work on Urdu Poetics
By Maulana Altaf Hussain "Hali"
Foreword by Dr Nagendra
Translated into Hindi by
Hansraj Rahbar, Sureshchandra Gupt, Khwaja Badi-ul-Zaman
2005     215 x 135 mm     172 pp
978-81-260-2148-2     Softcover     Rs. 85