Zafar iqbal poet from pakistan or india

Zafar Iqbal is a well-known Urdu poet but a few know that he has also been writing poetry in Punjabi language since long.

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Sadly, he is an underrated Punjabi poet. Any creative writer who refuses to walk in the rut and dares innovate must be ready to be taken at best as a literary nuisance and at worst a cultural aberration. Anonymity is usually the fate of those who defy the so-called norms. Way back in the s, Zafar Iqbal was part of a new literary movement in Urdu spearheaded by the late Iftikhar Jalib that defied the conventional poetics with a view to exploring the new linguistic avenues conducive to the expression of the layered contemporary experience in the changed socio-cultural conditions.

Iftikhar Jalib and Zafar Iqbal came to be conceived as a vanguard of unsettling modernity which not only exposed how unpoetic the given poetics was but also ridiculed the use of traditionally relished language and saccharine diction as banal and hollow, bereft of intrinsic dynamics and thus unable to express anything worthwhile and fresh.

As a result of new conceptual framework that underpinned their expression, the former experimented with the genre of poem and the latter with ghazal, a genre borrowed from Persian, which had borrowed it from Arabic. Iftikhar Jalib, immensely creative and highly imaginative, fell victim to the charms of his own theoretical analyses: he composed poetry as dictated by the theoretical parameters of his insights with the result that it, despite being intriguing and stimulating, somehow failed to communicate his best to his readers.

Brainy poets sometimes forget that poetry defies formulae, original and borrowed. One of the reasons could be his choice of the genre. He chose ghazal for his creative expression.