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Habib Jalib: the people’s poet and historian

Habib Jalib: the people’s poet and historian

Despite oppression and persecution of the speakers of the truth, there have always been brave souls in every period of history

‘Had I passed away last year These sorrows too would have ended last year The hands raised in enquiry are now paralysed with fear My patrons were not like this last year’ (Habib Jalib, On My Birthday, 1975) If Urdu, as a language, has produced any ‘people’s poet’ after Nazeer Akbarabadi, then it is Habib […]