This episode is from series two of Modern-ish Poets. To listen to series one ... a new Close Readings series on elegy from the Renaissance to the present day. They discuss why the elegy can be a ...

Akbarabadi's influence, through Altaf Husain Hali and Muhammad Husain Azad in the 19th century, has continued in Urdu poetry to this day. One of the great beneficiaries of this influence was Allama ...