Re: GREATS OF URDU POETRY:
I agree with you and you could be right…let me check that also…and meanwhile…I repeat the extract of my earlier submission…
***Here is what Dr. Jamiluddin Aali, Dr. Farman Fatehpuri, Dr. Jamil Jalibi and Shr Ansari…the pundits of URDU have to say when I posed your matter on them;
FIRSTLY…there is a controversy that the very verses I quoted above…belong to Bahadurshah Zafar !! (that’s news to me as well!). Next, the verses YOU quote are also correct but the ones I quoted are also not wrong. The history, they say, is not very clear on Bahadurshah Zafar’s poetry AFTER his fall and the ones—he reportedly, wrote from exile in Rangoon. It is also said that some of the popular ones are not of Zafar but have been attributed to be by him on the fact that…*
Khush Rahein…