Welcome to the wonderful world of sher 'o' shayari!
For people who have just ventured into the world of sher 'o' shayari - a good urdu - english dictionary is an indispensable tool. A good one on the net can be found here. For a ready reckoner download this one to your computer. This is an excellent dictionary compiled by Dinesh Prabhu.
Currently there are two major sections here:
Ghazals section: where I will keep posting information about/translation of various ghazals, and also keep adding miscellaneous shers that I come across.
A Sher A Day section: This was an extermely interesting series that was circulating on the usenet group RMIM (rec.music.indian.misc) and was posted by Abhay Avachat. This was originally a series of 120 articles. I have published whatever I could get hold of, and will keep adding articles to it till the time the series is complete. Later, I will also try to post the discussions associated with these articles as they add a wealth of supplemental information to the original articles. Please take your time to visit Abhay Avachat's Aashi'yaana for a wealth of information on Urdu Poetry.
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