ZahraNigah is an authentic, respectable and well known poetess of Twentieth and Twenty first centuries. She gave Urdu poetry (Poems and Ghazals) a distinguished and novel diction which was weawon into culture with a flare of civilization and a touch of femininity. Zahra Nigah was born in Hyderabad Dakan on 14th May 1937. she along with her family migrated to Karachi Pakistan in 1948. Since she belonged to a literary family therefore she inherited the love for poetry and literature. She got initial training to write poetry from Jigar Murad Abadi a well known poet of those times. She was lucky to have the company of literary stalwarts like Firaq, Faiz and Jigar who were like shadowy trees to her in scorching heat of the world. She was a considerate person and respected relations, contacts and companionships. Though she witnessed relations being shattered during the chaos created by migration but while writing about them she remained optimistic. While representing individual sufferings, matters of love, homelessness, social amid sexual matters, she has become a symbol of feminist movement through her poetry and other writings.

Ateequllah, Beeswein Sadi Mein Khawateen Ka Urdu Adab, (Delhi: Modern Publishing House)

Najma Rehmani, Azadi Ke Baad Urdu Shairat, (Delhi: Bharat Offset Press, 1994)

Zahra Nigah, Majmoo e Kalam, (Lahore: Sang e Meel Publications, 2012)

Zahra Nigah, Sham Ka Pehla Tara, (Lahore: Sang e Meel Publications)

Mansoor Khuwshter, Akeesvein Sadi Mein Urdu Ghazal, (Daryaganj: New Print Centre, 2017)

Fikar o Tahqeeq, June 2016

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