Poets/Writers From Aligarh

One of the promising younger poets

Leading poet who taught Urdu literature at AMU, Aligarh, also published a literary magazine 'Daairay'

Known for her stories of deeper social concerns

Known for his emotional intensity tinged with irony

One of the most prominent later – classical poets

writer, story critic and translator of the new generation.

One of the younger story writers.

Prominent post-modern poet who went missing in 1996

One of the founders of modern Urdu criticism.