In his opinion Faiq’s verse is like a fresh and fragrant gust of wind in the realm of Urdu poetry that serves to distinguish him amongst his contemporaries. At the same time Rao Manzar Hayat ...

fell so violently in love with Lili that he abandoned ‘his lady friend and his linen at the laundry and in general all his possessions’ and took a room in Petrograd near Lili and Osip. When ‘A C loud ...