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Bhopal's best-known voice, reciting since the age of seventeen at mushairas across five continents and some two dozen countries, including twenty-six tours of the United States. A dozen collections to his name, from Ye Sadi Hamari Hai to Lava, and holder of the key to the city of Louisville, Kentucky.

Born in Karachi, now in Lahore, and among the most closely watched poets of his generation. Ten books across poetry, philosophy and fiction — Parindagi, Manjh Roop — alongside Urdu translations of Kafka and Camus.

Daughter of the critic and poet Prof. Sahar Ansari, she topped her Master's in Urdu literature at the University of Karachi. She writes on faith, conscience and the lives of women, and is one of the most sought-after voices at mushairas in Pakistan today.

A Sikh poet who learned the Urdu script on his ustaad's advice and has since published more than fifteen collections in Urdu, Devanagari and Punjabi. A Yash Bharti awardee who wrote the title song for Mahesh Bhatt's Dhokha and has read at Jashn-e-Bahar and at international mushairas from Karachi to Abu Dhabi.