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    "name": "A G Josh",
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  {
    "name": "A. D. Azhar",
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  {
    "name": "A. Hameed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/a-hameed",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1928 -2011",
    "description": "Popular short story writer, novelist and playwright, known for his romantic style of rendition"
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  {
    "name": "A. Khayyam",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/a-khayyam-1",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "A. S Bukhari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/a-s-bukhari",
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    "description": null
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    "name": "A.D.Rahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/adrahi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "A.R Sahil 'Aleeg'",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ar-sahil-aleeg",
    "location": "Uttar pradesh",
    "active_years": "1992",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Aabid Adeeb",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aabid-adeeb",
    "location": "Udaipur",
    "active_years": "1937",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aabid Jafri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aabid-jafri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "aabid umar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aabid-umar",
    "location": "Kasur",
    "active_years": "1977",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aabida Urooj",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aabida-urooj",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aabidullah Ghazi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aabidullah-ghazi",
    "location": "Chicago",
    "active_years": "1936 -2021",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aadarsh Dubey",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aadarsh-dubey",
    "location": "Sagar",
    "active_years": "2001",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aadil Aseer Dehlvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aadil-aseer-dehlvi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1959 -2014",
    "description": "Browse top ebooks written by Aadil Aseer Dehlvi here. This page features all the popular ebooks by Aadil Aseer Dehlvi, selected by Rekhta for Urdu Ebook readers."
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  {
    "name": "Aadil Farhat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aadil-farhat",
    "location": "Jammu and Kashmir",
    "active_years": "1984",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aadil Rahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aadil-rahi",
    "location": "yavatmal",
    "active_years": "1993",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aadil Rasheed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aadil-rasheed",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1967",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aadil Raza Mansoori",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aadil-raza-mansoori",
    "location": "Jaipur",
    "active_years": "1978",
    "description": "Well-known poet and editor of literary journal 'Istefsaar'"
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  {
    "name": "Aafaq Banarasi  new",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aafaq-banarasi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1934",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Aafaque Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aafaque-siddiqui",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1928",
    "description": "Pakistani poet, journalist, and translator known for his book containing translations of Sindhi literature"
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  {
    "name": "Aaftab Lakhnvi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Aaftab Muztar",
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    "active_years": "1959",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aaftab Rais Panipati",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aaftab-rais-panipati",
    "location": "Panipat",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "A poet known for his poems on personalities, incidents, festivals, and topical issues. Also wrote a play called 'Hindustani Soorma'"
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    "name": "Aaga nisaar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aaga-nisaar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aagha Akbarabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aagha-akbarabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1879",
    "description": "Prominent classical poet and contemporary of Dagh Dehlavi, reflecting all the values of romantic bohimianism of classical Urdu ghazal."
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  {
    "name": "Aagha Ashraf",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aagha-ashraf",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aagha Babar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aagha-babar",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1919 -1998",
    "description": "Noted fiction writer and playwright from Pakistan."
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  {
    "name": "Aah Sambhali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aah-sambhali",
    "location": "Sambhalpur",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aajiz Hengan Ghati",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aajiz-hengan-ghati",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1936 -2008",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aajiz Meer Puri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aajiz-meer-puri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aakash Atharv",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aakash-atharv",
    "location": "Basti",
    "active_years": "2003",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aakif Ghani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aakif-ghani",
    "location": "France",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aalam Nizami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aalam-nizami",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1984",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aale Ahmad Suroor",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aale-ahmad-suroor",
    "location": "Aligarh",
    "active_years": "1911 -2002",
    "description": "One of the founders of modern Urdu criticism."
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  {
    "name": "Aal-e-Raza Raza",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aal-e-raza-raza",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1896 -1978",
    "description": "Prominent poet who mastered the poetic idiom of Lucknow poetry."
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  {
    "name": "Aal-e-Umar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aal-e-umar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1995",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aali Gopalpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aali-gopalpuri",
    "location": "Balrampur",
    "active_years": "1912 -1980",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aalok Shrivastav",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aalok-shrivastav",
    "location": "Noida",
    "active_years": "1971",
    "description": "Eminent Poet and Lyricist"
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  {
    "name": "Aamil Darvesh",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamil-darvesh",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aamina Azfar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamina-azfar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aamina Mufti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamina-mufti",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aamir Ata",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamir-ata",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aamir Azher",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamir-azher-1",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1989",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aamir Riaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamir-riaz-1",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1993",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Aamir Shauqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamir-shauqi",
    "location": "Banaras",
    "active_years": "1997",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Aamir Suhail",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamir-suhail",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1977",
    "description": "One of the prominent poets of Pakistan known for his unique responses to modern-day social issues in his Ghazals and Nazms"
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  {
    "name": "Aanand Akhtar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aanand-akhtar",
    "location": "Bettiah",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Aanand Saroop Anjum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aanand-saroop-anjum",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "Prominent among the poets of Kashmir, published two collections, 'Raaste Manzilein' and 'Patta Patta'"
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  {
    "name": "Aanis Moin",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aanis-moin",
    "location": "Multan",
    "active_years": "1960 -1986",
    "description": "A promising poet from Pakistan who committed suicide at the age of 27"
  },
  {
    "name": "Aaquib Shaad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aaquib-shaad",
    "location": "Hapur",
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "B S Jain Jauhar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/b-s-jain-jauhar",
    "location": "Meerut",
    "active_years": "1927",
    "description": "A disciple of Seemab Akbarabadi, published several collections of his ghazals and nazms"
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  {
    "name": "B.M Khan Maley",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bm-khan-maley",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1952",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baba Moghaddam",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/baba-moghaddam",
    "location": "Tehran",
    "active_years": "1875 -1946",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Babar Ali Asad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/babar-ali-asad",
    "location": "Faisalabad",
    "active_years": "1980",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Babar Rehman Shah",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/babar-rehman-shah",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Babar Zuhrab",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/babar-zuhrab",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Babu Ladli Lal Laeq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/babu-ladli-lal-laeq",
    "location": "Mainpuri",
    "active_years": "1894",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Babu Ram Charan Lal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/babu-ram-charan-lal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baburao Bagul",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/baburao-bagul",
    "location": "Nashik",
    "active_years": "1930 -2008",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badiuzzaman Khawar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badiuzzaman-khawar",
    "location": "Ratnagiri",
    "active_years": "1938 -1990",
    "description": "Poet, writer and translator from Maharashtra, also translated Marathi poems into Urdu"
  },
  {
    "name": "Badiuzzaman Sahar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/badiuzzaman-sahar",
    "location": "Patna",
    "active_years": "1944",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badnam Nazar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badnam-nazar",
    "location": "Sheikhpura",
    "active_years": "1941 -2023",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr Azimabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/badr-azimabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr Jamali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badr-jamali",
    "location": "Tamil Nadu",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "One of the well-known poets of Tamil Nadu"
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr Jameel",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badr-jameel",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1946",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Badr Mohammadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/badr-mohammadi",
    "location": "Vaishali",
    "active_years": "1963",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr Muneer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badr-muneer",
    "location": "Khushab",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr Shamsi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/badr-shamsi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr Wasti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badr-wasti",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr-e-Alam Khalish",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badr-e-alam-khalish",
    "location": "Jamshedpur",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr-e-Alam Khan Azmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/badr-e-alam-khan-azmi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badrinath Upadhyay 'Prem Dhan'",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badrinath-upadhyay-prem-dhan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badrul Hasan Badar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badrul-hasan-badar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baeem Hairati",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/baeem-hairati",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Bagh Husain Kamal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bagh-husain-kamal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Bahadur Shah Zafar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bahadur-shah-zafar",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1775 -1862",
    "description": "Last Mughal Emperor and contemporary of Ghalib and Zauq."
  },
  {
    "name": "Bahadur Singh Kam Badayuni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bahadur-singh-kam-badayuni",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baharunnisa Bahar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/baharunnisa-bahar",
    "location": "Multan",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Bahauddin Kaleem",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bahauddin-kaleem",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Bahram ji",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bahram-ji",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1828 -1895",
    "description": "Parsi religious scholar who deeply absorbed Urdu literary traditions and wrote poetry in Urdu and Persian"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bahram Tariq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bahram-tariq",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Bahzad Fatami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/bahzad-fatami",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1914",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baig Ehsas",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/baig-ehsas",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1948",
    "description": "Noted story writer, a recipient of Sahitya Akademi award."
  },
  {
    "name": "Bakhsh Layalpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bakhsh-layalpuri",
    "location": "London",
    "active_years": "1934 -2002",
    "description": "A people’s poet with progressive leanings, also served as the president of  Progressive Writers Association of UK"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bakhtiyar Ziya",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bakhtiyar-ziya",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1922 -1984",
    "description": "One of the better-known poets of  Bhopal, was influenced by Progressive Writers Movement"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bakul Dev",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bakul-dev",
    "location": "Jaipur",
    "active_years": "1980",
    "description": "A new age Indian poet"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bal Krishn",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bal-krishn-1",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Bal Mukund Besabr",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bal-mukund-besabr",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1812/13 -1885",
    "description": "A poet-mentor, favourite disciple of Mirza Ghalib"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bal Swaroop Rahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bal-swaroop-rahi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1936",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balbir Rathi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balbir-rathi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balbir Singh Rang",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balbir-singh-rang",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baldev Raaj",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/baldev-raaj",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1924",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baldev singh Hamdam",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/baldev-singh-hamdam",
    "location": "Kurukshetra",
    "active_years": "1922",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balmohan panday",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balmohan-panday",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balraj Bakshi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balraj-bakshi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balraj Hairat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balraj-hairat",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1930 -1995",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balraj Hayat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balraj-hayat",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balraj Komal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balraj-komal",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1928 -2013",
    "description": "One of the leading modern poets and short story writer, who made outstanding contribution to modern Urdu Nazm in India."
  },
  {
    "name": "Balraj Kumar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balraj-kumar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balraj Menra",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/balraj-menra",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1935 -2016",
    "description": "Most prominent modernist fiction writer, celebrated for his symbolic stories; also the compiler of journal 'Shuoor'."
  },
  {
    "name": "Captain Alexander Hederly Azad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/captain-alexander-hederly-azad",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1829 -1861",
    "description": "European poet of the classical period whose father adopted the Indian way of life. Published a divan containing ghazls and poems in other poetical genres"
  },
  {
    "name": "Captain Damingo Paul Lizwa",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/captain-damingo-paul-lizwa",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1838 -1903",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Captain Syed Fayyaz Mahmood",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/captain-syed-fayyaz-mahmood",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1906 -1994",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chakbast Brij Narayan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chakbast-brij-narayan",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1882 -1926",
    "description": "Leading early 20th century poet. Famous for his Nazm on Ramayan. Wrote oft-quoted sher 'Zindagi kya hai anasir men zahur-e-tartib…'."
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaman Bhatnagar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chaman-bhatnagar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1925",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaman Lal Chaman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chaman-lal-chaman",
    "location": "London",
    "active_years": "1934 -2019",
    "description": "Poet, lyricist and radio broadcaster; wrote poetry in Urdu and Punjabi. His lyrics were sung by celebrated singers like Asha Bhonsle and Jagjit Singh"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaman Sitapuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chaman-sitapuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chand Akbarabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chand-akbarabadi",
    "location": "Agra",
    "active_years": "1975",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chand Kakralvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chand-kakralvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1979",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandar Bhan Kaifi Dehelvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandar-bhan-kaifi-dehelvi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1878/79 -1941",
    "description": "Well-known for his poems on interesting topics; also wrote patriotic poems. Taught Persian for a long period of time"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chander Wahid",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chander-wahid",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1958",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandni Pandey",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandni-pandey",
    "location": "Kanpur",
    "active_years": "1974",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandra Parkash Jauhar Bijnauri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandra-parkash-jauhar-bijnauri",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1923 -1995",
    "description": "A poet of traditional style, popular in Mushairas"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandra Parkash Shad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandra-parkash-shad",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "One of the prominent modern poets"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandra Shekhar Varma",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandra-shekhar-varma",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1967",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandrabhan Khayal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandrabhan-khayal",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1946",
    "description": "Well-known nazm poet"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandrakant Bakshi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chandrakant-bakshi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1932 -2006",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandrashekhar Pandey Shams",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandrashekhar-pandey-shams",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1984",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandu Lal Bahadur Shadan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandu-lal-bahadur-shadan",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1763 -1845",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Charagh Barelvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/charagh-barelvi",
    "location": "Bareilly",
    "active_years": "1988",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Charagh Sharma",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/charagh-sharma",
    "location": "Chandausi",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Charan Singh Bashar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/charan-singh-bashar",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1957",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Charkh Chinioti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/charkh-chinioti",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "Famous for his nazms and ghazals of romantic nature; influenced by Akhtar Sheerani"
  },
  {
    "name": "Charles Bukowski",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/charles-bukowski",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1920 -1994",
    "description": "American poet, novelist, and short story writer"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chashma Farooqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chashma-farooqi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaudhari Mohammad Ali Rudaulvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chaudhari-mohammad-ali-rudaulvi",
    "location": "Rudauli",
    "active_years": "1882 -1959",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaudhary Kalka Prashad Ijad Biswani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chaudhary-kalka-prashad-ijad-biswani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaudhary Mohammad Naeem",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chaudhary-mohammad-naeem",
    "location": "USA",
    "active_years": "1936",
    "description": "Prominent scholar and literary critic who writes both in Urdu and English living in U.S.A"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaudhary Sher Jung",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chaudhary-sher-jung",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chetan Panchal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chetan-panchal",
    "location": "Gujarat",
    "active_years": "1992",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chhabi Saksena Sahai Saba",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chhabi-saksena-sahai-saba",
    "location": "UAE",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chiragh Hasan Hasrat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chiragh-hasan-hasrat",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1904 -1955",
    "description": "A poet and Journalist. Famous especially for his humorous columns."
  },
  {
    "name": "Chiraguddin Charagh",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chiraguddin-charagh",
    "location": "Burhanpur",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chirikof",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chirikof",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chitra Bhardwaj suman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chitra-bhardwaj-suman",
    "location": "Jaipur",
    "active_years": "1986",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chitransh Khare",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chitransh-khare",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1989",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chonch Gayawi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chonch-gayawi",
    "location": "Gaya",
    "active_years": "1967",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chunchal Sialkoti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chunchal-sialkoti",
    "location": "Sialkot",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "One of the important poets of humour to emerge during the 60s"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chunni Lal Madiya",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chunni-lal-madiya",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Col. Mohammad Khan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/col-mohammad-khan",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1910 -1999",
    "description": "One of the most prominent writers of humour and satire in pakistan."
  },
  {
    "name": "D K Kanwal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/d-k-kanwal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "D. Raj Kanwal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/d-raj-kanwal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1923",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daem Gawwasi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daem-gawwasi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dagh Dehlvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dagh-dehlvi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1831 -1905",
    "description": "Last of classical poets who celebrated life and love. Famous for  his playfulness of words (idioms/ phrases)."
  },
  {
    "name": "dagh Niyazi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dagh-niyazi-1",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1954",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dakhlan Bhopali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dakhlan-bhopali",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1973",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Damodar Thakur Zaki",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/damodar-thakur-zaki",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "One of the important poets from Gulbarga; worked tirelessly for the cause of Urdu"
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Aligarhi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-aligarhi",
    "location": "Aligarh",
    "active_years": "1931",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Amiri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-amiri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Asari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-asari",
    "location": "Maunath Bhanjan",
    "active_years": "1991",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Aziz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-aziz",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1970",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Ejaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-ejaz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Farahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-farahi",
    "location": "Azamgarh",
    "active_years": "1949 -2023",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Farazi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-farazi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1924 -1980",
    "description": "One of the important poets from Tamil Nadu, known for his qitaat"
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Hayat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-hayat",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Naqwi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-naqwi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1995",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Nazeer Dani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-nazeer-dani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daniyal Tareer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daniyal-tareer",
    "location": "Quetta",
    "active_years": "1980 -2015",
    "description": "One of the prominent young poets from Pakistan; died early of a deadly disease"
  },
  {
    "name": "Daniyal Zaman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daniyal-zaman",
    "location": "Khushab",
    "active_years": "1996",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daood Kaashmiri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daood-kaashmiri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daood Mohsin",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/daood-mohsin",
    "location": "Davanagere",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": "One of the contemporary short story writers"
  },
  {
    "name": "Dard Asadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dard-asadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1919 -1990",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dard Faiz Khan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dard-faiz-khan",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "2003",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dard Saeedi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dard-saeedi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "A poet from Tonk estate, migrated to Pakistan following the Partition; published a collection called Shola-e-Jaan"
  },
  {
    "name": "Dard Sironji",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/dard-sironji",
    "location": "Sironj",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Darshan Dayal Parwaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/darshan-dayal-parwaz",
    "location": "Jalandhar",
    "active_years": "1935",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Darshan Singh",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/darshan-singh",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1921 -1989",
    "description": "Known for his poetry of mystical and spiritual leanings; wrote poems on major religious and spiritual characters"
  },
  {
    "name": "Darshika wasani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/darshika-wasani",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1986",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "darvesh bharti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/darvesh-bharti",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1937",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Datatiri Rao",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/datatiri-rao",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dattatriya Kaifi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dattatriya-kaifi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1866 -1955",
    "description": "Prominent scholar of Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit"
  },
  {
    "name": "Daud Ghazi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daud-ghazi",
    "location": "Ratnagiri",
    "active_years": "1932 -1963",
    "description": "A poet influenced by progressive thoughts, committed suicide at an early age"
  },
  {
    "name": "Daud Naseeb",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/daud-naseeb",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daud Nishat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/daud-nishat",
    "location": "Kadapa",
    "active_years": "1929 -1992",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daulat Aasiri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daulat-aasiri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1795",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daulat Ram Sabir Panipati",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/daulat-ram-sabir-panipati",
    "location": "Panipat",
    "active_years": "-1961",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daur Afridi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daur-afridi",
    "location": "Rampur",
    "active_years": "1930 -1992",
    "description": "One of the romantic poets; also published a collection of romantic poems called Roomaniyaat"
  },
  {
    "name": "Davarka Das Shola",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/davarka-das-shola",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1910 -1983",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dawood Kashmiri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/dawood-kashmiri",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dawood Khan Raaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dawood-khan-raaz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1934",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dawood Rizwan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dawood-rizwan",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "An important nazm poet from Pakistan"
  },
  {
    "name": "Deeba Salam",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/deeba-salam",
    "location": "Allahabd",
    "active_years": "1981",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deedar Akbarpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/deedar-akbarpuri",
    "location": "Iran",
    "active_years": "1996",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deedar Bastawi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/deedar-bastawi",
    "location": "Basti",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deepak Budki",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/deepak-budki",
    "location": "Jammu and Kashmir",
    "active_years": "1950",
    "description": "Noted story writer known for his stories on contemporary and psychological issues; also wrote critical pieces on the present state of fiction."
  },
  {
    "name": "Deepak Danish",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/deepak-danish",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deepak Jain Deep",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/deepak-jain-deep",
    "location": "Guna",
    "active_years": "1961",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deepak Kamil",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/deepak-kamil",
    "location": "Rajasthan",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deepak Kanwal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/deepak-kanwal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deepak Purohit",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/deepak-purohit",
    "location": "Jaipur",
    "active_years": "1954",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehqar Jhanswi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehqar-jhanswi",
    "location": "Jhansi",
    "active_years": "1880 -1959",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsaan Ghaman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsaan-ghaman",
    "location": "Gujrat",
    "active_years": "1981",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsaan Sabz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsaan-sabz",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Akbar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-akbar",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1938",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Akhtar Ghazipuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ehsan-akhtar-ghazipuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Ali Khan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-ali-khan",
    "location": "Islamabad",
    "active_years": "1922 -1991",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Asghar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-asghar",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Danish",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-danish",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1914 -1982",
    "description": "One of the most popular poets in the fourth and fifth decades of 20th century, contemporary of Faiz Ahmad Faiz."
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Darbhangavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-darbhangavi",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "active_years": "1922 -1998",
    "description": "A prominent Progressive poet"
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    "name": "Ehsan Jafri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-jafri",
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    "active_years": "-2010",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Ehsan Razaa",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-razaa",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "name": "Ehsan Saqib",
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    "active_years": "1943",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Ehsan Sehgal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ehsan-sehgal",
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    "active_years": null,
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsanul-haq-mazhar",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ehsas Gayawi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsas-gayawi",
    "location": "Gaya",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ehsas magahri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsas-magahri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ehsas Muradabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsas-muradabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ehteram Islam",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehteram-islam",
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    "active_years": "1949",
    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1944",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Ehtisham Ali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ehtisham-ali",
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    "active_years": "1983",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ehtisham Bachhrayuni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ehtisham-bachhrayuni",
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    "active_years": "1939",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ehtisham Hasan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehtisham-hasan",
    "location": "Bahawalpur",
    "active_years": "1969",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ehtisham ul Haq Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehtisham-ul-haq-siddiqui",
    "location": "Muzaffarnagar",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ehya Bhojpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehya-bhojpuri",
    "location": "Dubai",
    "active_years": "1977",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaaz Ahamd",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaaz-ahamd",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1932",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ejaaz Talib",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaaz-talib",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaaz tawakkal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaaz-tawakkal",
    "location": "Bahawalpur",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Ahmad Ejaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-ahmad-ejaz",
    "location": "London",
    "active_years": "1942",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Ejaz Ajmeri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ejaz-ajmeri",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ejaz Akhtar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-akhtar",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ejaz Ali Arshad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ejaz-ali-arshad",
    "location": "Patna",
    "active_years": "1954",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Ansari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-ansari",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1955",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ejaz Asif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-asif",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Azmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-azmi",
    "location": "Azamgarh",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Batalwi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-batalwi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Farooqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-farooqi",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1935",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Gilani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-gilani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Gul",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-gul",
    "location": "Islamabad",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Haidar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-haidar",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1963",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Kamravi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-kamravi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Manpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-manpuri",
    "location": "Gaya",
    "active_years": "1963",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Obaid",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-obaid",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Parwana",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-parwana",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1972",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Quraishi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-quraishi",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1964",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Rahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ejaz-rahi",
    "location": "Islamabad",
    "active_years": "1942 -2006",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Rahmani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-rahmani",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1936 -2019",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Rizvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-rizvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ejaz Shakir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-shakir",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Siddiqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-siddiqi",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1913 -1978",
    "description": "Prominent Urdu poet who edited the literary Journal 'Shaair'. Son of Seemab Akbarabadi"
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    "description": "One of the most prominent Urdu poets of pre-Mir era, who laid the foundation of Urdu poetry"
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    "name": "Faheem Aazmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faheem-aazmi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faheem-akhtar-kamboh",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1984",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faheem Amrohvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faheem-amrohvi",
    "location": "Amroha",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faheem Gorakhpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faheem-gorakhpuri",
    "location": "Gorakhpur",
    "active_years": "1878",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faheem Hairat Raheemi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faheem-hairat-raheemi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faheem Jogapuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faheem-jogapuri",
    "location": "Siwan",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faheem Jozi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faheem-jozi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faheem Shanas Kazmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faheem-shanas-kazmi",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1965",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faheemuddin Ahmad Faheem",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faheemuddin-ahmad-faheem",
    "location": "Patna",
    "active_years": "1877 -1922",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Fahmi Badayuni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/fahmi-badayuni",
    "location": "Badayun",
    "active_years": "1952",
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/fahmida-mosarrat-ahmad",
    "location": "Jhang",
    "active_years": "1968",
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/fahmida-riaz",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1946 -2018",
    "description": "Woman poet from Pakistan, known for strong feminist and anti-establishment leanings."
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    "name": "Faisal Ajmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-ajmi",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-azeem",
    "location": "Canada",
    "active_years": "1974",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faisal Farooq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-farooq",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "2002",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faisal Fehmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-fehmi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faisal Hashmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-hashmi-1",
    "location": "Oslo",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faisal Imam Rizvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-imam-rizvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1988",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faisal Imtiyaz Khan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-imtiyaz-khan",
    "location": "Anantnag",
    "active_years": "2001",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faisal Khayyam",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-khayyam",
    "location": "Bahawalpur",
    "active_years": "1990",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faisal Malik",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-malik",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1982",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faisal Nadeem Faisal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-nadeem-faisal",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1983",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faisal Qadri Gunnauri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-qadri-gunnauri",
    "location": "Gunnaur",
    "active_years": "1995",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faisal Rehan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-rehan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faisal-saeed-zirgham",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1974",
    "description": "Young Pakistani poet and short story writer."
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  {
    "name": "Faisal Saghar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-saghar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiyaz-ahmed",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1974",
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiyaz-aswad",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faiyaz-gwaliari",
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    "active_years": "1906 -1980",
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiyaz-rashk",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1953",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faiyaz Rifat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faiyaz-rifat",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1940 -2022",
    "description": null
  },
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    "name": "Faiz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1947",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faiz Ahmad Faiz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-ahmad-faiz",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1911 -1984",
    "description": "One of the widely celebrated and popular Urdu poets. Equally sung in romance and rebel. Faced political repression against his revolutionary views"
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  {
    "name": "Faiz Alam Babar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-alam-babar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "faiz anwar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-anwar",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1965",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faiz Dakani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-dakani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1682",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faiz Jhanjhanvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faiz-jhanjhanvi",
    "location": "Faisalabad",
    "active_years": "1910 -1981",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faiz Khalilabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-khalilabadi",
    "location": "Sant Kabir Nagar",
    "active_years": "1980",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faiz Ludhianvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-ludhianvi",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1911 -1995",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faiz rahil Khan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-rahil-khan",
    "location": "Jaunpur",
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faiz Rahmani Faiz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-rahmani-faiz",
    "location": "Bhagalpur",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faiz Tabassum Tonsvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faiz-tabassum-tonsvi",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faiz ul Hasan Khayal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-ul-hasan-khayal",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1916 -1890",
    "description": null
  },
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faiza-hamza",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faizan Arif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faizan-arif",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1967",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faizan Asad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faizan-asad",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1986",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faizan Hashmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faizan-hashmi",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1986",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faizan Nadir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faizan-nadir",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faizi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faizi",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1965",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "G A Kulkarni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/g-a-kulkarni",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1923 -1987",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "G L Rawal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/g-l-rawal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "G R Kanwal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/g-r-kanwal-1",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1935",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "G. R. Vashishth",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/g-r-vashishth",
    "location": "Alwar",
    "active_years": "1996",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Gaazi Moin",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gaazi-moin",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1978",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Gaffar Babar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gaffar-babar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ganesh Bihari Tarz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ganesh-bihari-tarz",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1932 -2008",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ganesh Gaikwad Aaghaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ganesh-gaikwad-aaghaz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1970",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Gauhar Begum Gauhar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gauhar-begum-gauhar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Gauhar Hoshiyarpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gauhar-hoshiyarpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1930 -2000",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Gauhar Naushahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gauhar-naushahi",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Gauhar Raza",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gauhar-raza",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1956",
    "description": "Indian scientist,a leading Urdu poet, social activist and documentary filmmaker"
  },
  {
    "name": "Gauhar Seema",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gauhar-seema",
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    "description": "Prominent Sufi poet for whom Mirza Ghalib had great devotion"
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  {
    "name": "Ghani Ahmad Ghani",
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    "active_years": "1937",
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  {
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghani-ghayoor",
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  {
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  {
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  {
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    "description": null
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  {
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    "active_years": "1980",
    "description": null
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  {
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    "description": "One of the prominent story writers, known for his story Parinda Pakadne Wali Gaadi."
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    "active_years": "1939",
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghayur-jafari",
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    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ghazal-jafari",
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ghazal-zaigham",
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  {
    "name": "H. B. Baloch",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/h-b-baloch",
    "location": "Sindh",
    "active_years": "1978",
    "description": null
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    "active_years": null,
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  {
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-aarvi",
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    "active_years": null,
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  {
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  {
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    "active_years": "1908",
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    "description": null
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    "name": "Habeeb Fakhri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-fakhri",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-hashmi",
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    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Habeeb Hyderabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-hyderabadi",
    "location": "London",
    "active_years": "1924 -1989",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habeeb Jaunpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/habeeb-jaunpuri",
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    "name": "Habeeb Kaifi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-kaifi",
    "location": "Jodhpur",
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-khan",
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  {
    "name": "Habeeb Moosavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-moosavi",
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    "name": "Habeeb Rahat Habab",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/habeeb-rethpuri",
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    "name": "Habeeb Saifi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/habeeb-saifi",
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    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Habib Jalib",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habib-jalib",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1928 -1993",
    "description": "Popular poet from Pakistan, known for his anti-establishment poetry, having mass following."
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    "name": "Habib Rehman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habib-rehman",
    "location": "Jodhpur",
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Habib Tanvir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habib-tanvir",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1923 -2009",
    "description": "One of the most well-known contemporary Drama personality, famous for his play \"Agra-Baazar\"."
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habibikinkhabwala",
    "location": "Surat",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Habibur Rahman Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habibur-rahman-siddiqui",
    "location": "Amravati",
    "active_years": "1901 -1971",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Hadeed Fatema",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hadeed-fatema",
    "location": "Sialkot",
    "active_years": "2001",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hadi Machlishahri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hadi-machlishahri",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1890 -1961",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hadi Mustafabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hadi-mustafabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Hadi Rifat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hadi-rifat",
    "location": "Bangalore",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hadis Salsal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hadis-salsal",
    "location": "Jhelum",
    "active_years": "1995",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Aatish",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/hafeez-aatish",
    "location": "Amroha",
    "active_years": "1942",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Banarasi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-banarasi",
    "location": "Banaras",
    "active_years": "1933 -2008",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Betab",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-betab",
    "location": "Jamshedpur",
    "active_years": "1941",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Fatima Barelvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-fatima-barelvi",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Hoshiarpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-hoshiarpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1912 -1973",
    "description": "Popular poet famous for his widely-sung ghazal \"mohabbat karne wale kam na honge, teri mahfil mein lekin ham na honge\"."
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  {
    "name": "Hafeez Jalandhari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-jalandhari",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1900 -1982",
    "description": "Popular romantic poet made famous by Malika Pukhraj by singining ghazal \"abhi to main jawan huun\". Wrote the National Anthem of Pakistan."
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  {
    "name": "Hafeez Jauhar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-jauhar",
    "location": "England",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-jaunpuri",
    "location": "Jaunpur",
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    "description": "Famous for his sher, 'Baith jaata hun jahan chhanv ghani hoti hai.'"
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  {
    "name": "Hafeez Merathi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-merathi",
    "location": "Meerut",
    "active_years": "1922 -2000",
    "description": "One of the most popular poets, famous for his sher 'Sheesha toote gul mach jae, dil toote awaz na aae.'"
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  {
    "name": "Hafeez Momin",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-momin",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1948",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Shahid",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-shahid",
    "location": "Rahim Yar Khan",
    "active_years": "1942 -2014",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Siddiqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-siddiqi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Tabassum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-tabassum",
    "location": "Multan",
    "active_years": "1990",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafiz Ahmad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafiz-ahmad",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafiz Dakni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafiz-dakni",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafiz Karnataki",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafiz-karnataki",
    "location": "Shimoga",
    "active_years": "1964",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafiz Ludhiyanvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafiz-ludhiyanvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Hafiz Pilibhiti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafiz-pilibhiti",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafiz Taib",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafiz-taib",
    "location": "Gujranwala",
    "active_years": "1931 -2004",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibadat Bareilvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibadat-bareilvi",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1920 -1998",
    "description": null
  },
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    "name": "Ibn e Insha",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibn-e-insha",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1927 -1978",
    "description": "Pakistani poet known for his ghazal \"kal chaudhanvi ki raat thi, shab bhar raha charcha tera\"."
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  {
    "name": "Ibnay Muneeb",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibnay-muneeb",
    "location": "Punjab",
    "active_years": "1979",
    "description": "Story writer and poet, published several collections of stories and poetry."
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  {
    "name": "Ibne Kanwal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibne-kanwal",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1957 -2023",
    "description": "One of the postmodernist story writers; author of several books of criticism."
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-e-Behroz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibn-e-behroz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-e-Mufti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibn-e-mufti",
    "location": "USA",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-e-Nashati",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibn-e-nashati",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1655",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-e-Raza",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibn-e-raza",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-e-Safi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibn-e-safi",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1928 -1980",
    "description": "Urdu poet who later became the most popular and renowned writer of detective novels in Urdu who earlier wrote Urdu poetry under the pen name of Asraar Naarvi."
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-e-Ummeed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibn-e-ummeed",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-ul-Hasan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibn-ul-hasan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibraheem Aajiz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibraheem-aajiz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibraheem Hosh",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibraheem-hosh",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": "1918 -1988",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibraheem Khaleel",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibraheem-khaleel",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1916 -1992",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrahim Ashk",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibrahim-ashk",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": "Film Lyricist, famous for his lyrics in the film 'Kaho na pyar hai'"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrahim Faiz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibrahim-faiz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrahim Jalees",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibrahim-jalees",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1924 -1977",
    "description": "Noted Pakistani story writer and journalist; also wrote plays and travelogues."
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrahim Noori",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibrahim-noori",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1988",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrat Bahraichi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibrat-bahraichi",
    "location": "Bahraich",
    "active_years": "1933 -2021",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrat Gorakhpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibrat-gorakhpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1859 -1918",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrat Machlishahri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibrat-machlishahri",
    "location": "Jaunpur",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrat Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibrat-siddiqui",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Idris Azad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/idris-azad",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Idris Babar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/idris-babar",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1973",
    "description": "Prominent among new generation poets of Pakistan"
  },
  {
    "name": "Idris Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/idris-siddiqui-2",
    "location": "Canada",
    "active_years": "1954",
    "description": "He has written 60 books for children about basic science and environmental issues."
  },
  {
    "name": "Iffat abbas",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iffat-abbas",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1963",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iffat Faridi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iffat-faridi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iffat Zarrin",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iffat-zarrin",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1958",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iffat Zeba Kakorvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iffat-zeba-kakorvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1924 -2002",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Aazmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-aazmi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1935 -1977",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Ahamad Siddiqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/iftikhar-ahamad-siddiqi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Ahmad Fakhr",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-ahmad-fakhr",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Ahmad Iqbal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-ahmad-iqbal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Arif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-arif",
    "location": "Islamabad",
    "active_years": "1943",
    "description": "One of the most prominent Pakistani poets, famous for his cultural romanticism."
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Bukhari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-bukhari",
    "location": "Punjab",
    "active_years": "1956",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Falak Kazmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-falak-kazmi",
    "location": "Paharpur",
    "active_years": "1992",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Haidar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-haidar",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1975",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Husain Muztar Khairabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-husain-muztar-khairabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Husain Rizwi Saeed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-husain-rizwi-saeed",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Imam Siddiqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-imam-siddiqi",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1947",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Jalib",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-jalib",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1936 -2003",
    "description": "Known for setting hyper-modernist trend in Pakistani Urdu criticism called 'Lisani Tashkilat'"
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Jameel Shaheen",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-jameel-shaheen",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Mughal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-mughal",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1961",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Naseem",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-naseem",
    "location": "USA",
    "active_years": "1946 -2011",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Qaisar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-qaisar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1937",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Raghib",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-raghib",
    "location": "Qatar",
    "active_years": "1973",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Sagar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-sagar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Shafi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-shafi",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1973",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Shahid Abu Saad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-shahid-abu-saad",
    "location": "Sialkot",
    "active_years": "1960",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ijad Burhanpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ijad-burhanpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1771",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "J E Najm",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/j-e-najm",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1985",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "J Nandar Kumar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/j-nandar-kumar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "J. B. Kulkarni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/j-b-kulkarni",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "J. P. Saeed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/j-p-saeed",
    "location": "Aurangabad",
    "active_years": "1932",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jaani Lakhnavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jaani-lakhnavi",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jabbar Jameel",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jabbar-jameel",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jabbar Wasif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jabbar-wasif",
    "location": "Rahim Yar Khan",
    "active_years": "1975",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jabir Ali Syed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/jabir-ali-syed",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Abbas",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-abbas",
    "location": "California",
    "active_years": "1947 -2022",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Abbas Safvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-abbas-safvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1938",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Ali Hasrat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-ali-hasrat",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1734 -1792",
    "description": "Prominent contemporary of Mir Taqi Mir. Known for depiction of physicality in his romantic poetry"
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Ali Khan Zaki",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-ali-khan-zaki",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1764",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Askari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-askari",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Baluch",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-baluch",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1947",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Dakni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-dakni",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Malihabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/jafar-malihabadi",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1946",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Raza",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-raza",
    "location": "Allahabd",
    "active_years": "1939 -2022",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Sahni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-sahni",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": "1941 -2018",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Shirazi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-shirazi",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1920",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Tahir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-tahir",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1917 -1977",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagan Nath Azad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/jagan-nath-azad",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1918 -2004",
    "description": "Renowned Urdu scholar famous for his works on Iqbal. Wrote the first National Anthem of Pakistan."
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagat Mohan Lal Ravan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jagat-mohan-lal-ravan",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1889 -1934",
    "description": "Famous for his Rubai's and long poem on Gautam Budha."
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagdeesh Masoom",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jagdeesh-masoom",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagdeesh Raj Figar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jagdeesh-raj-figar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagdish Prakash",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jagdish-prakash",
    "location": "Gurgaon",
    "active_years": "1935",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagdish Sahay Saxena",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jagdish-sahay-saxena",
    "location": "Shahjahanpur",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jageshwar Dayal Nashtar Kanpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jageshwar-dayal-nashtar-kanpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagjeewan Lal Asthana sahar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/jagjeewan-lal-asthana-sahar",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagjit Kafir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jagjit-kafir",
    "location": "Ludhiana",
    "active_years": "1979",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jah Kanpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jah-kanpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jahan Ara Tabassum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jahan-ara-tabassum",
    "location": "Quetta",
    "active_years": "1970",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jahangeer Imran",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jahangeer-imran",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jahangeer Khan Jauhar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jahangeer-khan-jauhar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1934 -2014",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jahangeer nayab",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jahangeer-nayab",
    "location": "Kishanganj",
    "active_years": "1985",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jahanzeb Sahir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jahanzeb-sahir",
    "location": "Faisalabad",
    "active_years": "1983",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jai Mani Sarshar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jai-mani-sarshar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jai Prakash Ghafil",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jai-prakash-ghafil",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jai Raj Singh Jhala",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jai-raj-singh-jhala",
    "location": "Ratlam",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jai Shree Thakur Shafaq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jai-shree-thakur-shafaq",
    "location": "Surat",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "JaiKrishn Chaudhry Habeeb",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jaikrishn-chaudhry-habeeb",
    "location": "Jabalpur",
    "active_years": "1904",
    "description": "Known for his role in Independence struggle, Urdu academics and literature"
  },
  {
    "name": "Jaimini Sarshar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jaimini-sarshar",
    "location": "Sonipat",
    "active_years": "1904 -1984",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jaishankar Prasad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jaishankar-prasad-1",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1889 -1937",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jalal Aarif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/jalal-aarif",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jalal Kakvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jalal-kakvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jalal Lakhnavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jalal-lakhnavi",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1832 -1909",
    "description": "One of the most prominent later classical poets at Lucknow who was associated with Rampur State."
  },
  {
    "name": "Jalal Manikpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jalal-manikpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jalaluddin Akbar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jalaluddin-akbar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1905 -1940",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jalee Amrohvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jalee-amrohvi",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1922 -2013",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jaleel 'Aali'",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jaleel-aali",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1945",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jaleel Ahmad Qidwai",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/jaleel-ahmad-qidwai",
    "location": "Islamabad",
    "active_years": "1904 -1996",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "K K Nanda Ashk",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/k-k-nanda-ashk",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1939",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "K. Bauccha",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/k-bauccha",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "K. Satchidanandan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/k-satchidanandan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1946",
    "description": "Reknowned poet and critic, writing in Malayalam and English"
  },
  {
    "name": "Kaami Shah",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaami-shah",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1979",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kabeer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kabeer",
    "location": "Banaras",
    "active_years": "1440 -1518",
    "description": "Prominent saint-poet of the Nirguna tradition of medieval Bhakti-literature. Known for his rebellious views on caste and untouchability."
  },
  {
    "name": "Kabeer Athar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kabeer-athar",
    "location": "Rahim Yar Khan",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kabir Ahmad Jaisi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kabir-ahmad-jaisi",
    "location": "Aligarh",
    "active_years": "1934 -2013",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kabir Ajmal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kabir-ajmal",
    "location": "Banaras",
    "active_years": "1967 -2020",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kafeel Aazar Amrohvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kafeel-aazar-amrohvi",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1940",
    "description": "Poet and lyricist. Famous for his nazm \"baat niklegi to phir door talak jayegi\" sung by Jagjit Singh."
  },
  {
    "name": "Kafeel Anwar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kafeel-anwar",
    "location": "Arrah",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kahkashaan Malik",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kahkashaan-malik",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1934",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kahkashan Tabassum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kahkashan-tabassum",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1960",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kahkeshan Parveen",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kahkeshan-parveen",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": "1960",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kaif Ahmed Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-ahmed-siddiqui",
    "location": "Sitapur",
    "active_years": "1943 -1986",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kaif Ansari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-ansari",
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    "name": "Kaif Azimabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-azimabadi",
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    "active_years": "1937",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaif Bhopali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-bhopali",
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    "description": "Popular poet and lyricist famous for his lyrics in film Paakeeza."
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-ikrami",
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    "active_years": null,
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  {
    "name": "Kaif Moradaabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-moradaabadi",
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    "active_years": "1907 -1976",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-uddin-khan",
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    "active_years": "2000",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaifi-azmi",
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    "name": "Kaifi Bilgrami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaifi-bilgrami",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaifi Chirayyakoti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaifi-chirayyakoti",
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    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaifi-hyderabadi",
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    "active_years": "1880 -1920",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kaifi-kakorvi",
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    "active_years": "1852 -1928",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Kaifi Sanbhali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaifi-sanbhali",
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaifi-wijdani",
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    "description": "Well-known poet / Father of prominent post-modern poet Shariq Kaifi"
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    "active_years": "1948",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kailash Jha Kinkar",
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    "active_years": "1962 -2020",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kailash Mahir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kailash-mahir",
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    "description": null
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    "name": "Kailash Sengar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kailash-sengar",
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    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kainaat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kainaat",
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    "active_years": "1992",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kainat-bashir",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kalam-haidari",
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    "description": "Noted progressive critic, story writer and journalist; also edited an important literary journal \"Aahung\"."
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kalb-e-husain-nadir",
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    "active_years": "1805 -1878",
    "description": null
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    "description": "Prominent contemporary Indian poet of classical tone."
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-ahmadabadi",
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    "active_years": "-1966",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-chughtai",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1954",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Kaleem Haider Sharar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-haider-sharar",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Kaleem Jazil",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-jazil",
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    "active_years": "1992",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-khan",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-noori-firozabadi",
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    "active_years": "1969",
    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1958",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-rahber",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1976",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaleem Sahasrami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-sahasrami",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1930",
    "description": null
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    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1928 -2000",
    "description": null
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    "description": null
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    "description": null
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/laila-khwaja-bano",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/laiq-aajiz",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/laiq-akbar-sahaab",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/laiq-siddiqi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lais-quraishi",
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lakshman",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1887 -1967",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/lal-chand-parathi-chand-kalwi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lal Chand Rangeen Aurangabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lal-chand-rangeen-aurangabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1780",
    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1896 -1968",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lala Jai Kishan das Bejan Aurangabadi",
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    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lala Kanji Mal Saba",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lala-kanji-mal-saba",
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    "active_years": "1792",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lala Madhav Ram Jauhar",
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    "active_years": "1810 -1889",
    "description": "Contemporary of Mirza Ghalib, famous for many of his oft-quoted shers."
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lala-mauji-ram-mauji",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1789",
    "description": null
  },
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    "name": "Lala Piyare Lal",
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    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1844/1850 -1874",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lala Rakha Ram Barq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lala-rakha-ram-barq",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lala Tika Ram",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lala-tika-ram",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lalan Chaudhary",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lalan-chaudhary",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1923",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Lalithambika Antharjanam",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/lalithambika-antharjanam",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1909 -1987",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lankesh Gautam",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lankesh-gautam",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "2003",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lata Haya",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lata-haya",
    "location": "Mumbai",
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    "description": null
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    "name": "Lateef Adeebi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateef-adeebi",
    "location": "Pune",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Lateef Ahmad Subhani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateef-ahmad-subhani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1950",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lateef Farooqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/lateef-farooqi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1840 -1907",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Lateef Hazin",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateef-hazin",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lateef Khan Mahfooz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateef-khan-mahfooz",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lateef Nazi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/lateef-nazi",
    "location": "Chennai",
    "active_years": "1930",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lateef Saani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateef-saani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lateef Sahil",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateef-sahil",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lateefunnisa Lateef",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateefunnisa-lateef",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/latif-shah-shahid",
    "location": "Nowshera",
    "active_years": "1968",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Laxman Sharma Vahid",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/laxman-sharma-vahid",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1942",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Laxmi Narayan Farigh",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/laxmi-narayan-farigh",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Laxmi Narayan Shafiq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/laxmi-narayan-shafiq",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1771 -1808",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/leo-tolstoy",
    "location": "Russia",
    "active_years": "1828 -1910",
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/leonard-cohen",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1934 -2016",
    "description": "Canadian poet, singer-songwriter, and novelist."
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  {
    "name": "Li Bai",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/li-bai",
    "location": "China",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty, renowned for his vivid imagery, profound emotion, and his status as one of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup."
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/liaqat-jafri",
    "location": "Jammu",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Liyaqat Ali Aasim",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/liyaqat-ali-aasim",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1951 -2019",
    "description": "Prominent Pakistani poet and linguist"
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/liyaqat-ali-azim",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lokesh-kumar-singh",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lokesh-tripathi",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1980",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/louise-gl-ck",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1943 -2023",
    "description": "Celebrated American poet and Nobel Laureate. Known for her thematically profound poetry that interrogates themes of personal trauma, familial dynamics, and the human relationship with nature."
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    "name": "Lubna Ghazal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/lubna-ghazal",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lubna Safdar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lubna-safdar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lucky-farooqi-hasrat",
    "location": "Muzaffarnagar",
    "active_years": "1990",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lutf-harooni",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1907 -1985",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lutfunnisa-imtiyaz",
    "location": "Aurangabad",
    "active_years": "1761",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lutf-ur-rahman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lutf-ur-rahman",
    "location": "Patna",
    "active_years": "1941",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "M I Zaahir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-i-zaahir",
    "location": "Jodhpur",
    "active_years": "1972",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "M K Mahtab",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-k-mahtab",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "M Kothiyavi Rahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-kothiyavi-rahi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1935 -2005",
    "description": null
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    "name": "M Mobeen",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-mobeen",
    "location": "Nashik",
    "active_years": "1958",
    "description": "Noted story writer, known for his stories on sensitive social issues."
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  {
    "name": "M R Qasmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-r-qasmi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1953",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "M. A. Qadeer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-a-qadeer",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "M. A. Shamsi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-a-shamsi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-gumnam",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "M. I. Sajid",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-i-sajid-1",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1946",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "M. J. Khalid",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-j-khalid",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "M. K. Asar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-k-asar",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": "1945",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "M. Mukundan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-mukundan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1942",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "M. N. Narhari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-n-narhari",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "M. Nasrullah Nasr",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-nasrullah-nasr",
    "location": "Howrah",
    "active_years": "1957",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "M. P. Narayana Pillai",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-p-narayana-pillai",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1939 -1998",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "M. S. Naz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-s-naz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "M. S. Rahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-s-rahi",
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    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Onkar Singh Vivek",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/onkar-singh-vivek",
    "location": "Rampur",
    "active_years": "1965",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Osaama ameer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/osaama-ameer",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Osama Jamil",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/osama-jamil",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Osama Khalid",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/osama-khalid",
    "location": "Muzaffargarh",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Osama Muneer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/osama-muneer",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Osama Zakir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/osama-zakir",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1988",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Oscar Wilde",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/oscar-wilde",
    "location": "Paris",
    "active_years": "1854 -1900",
    "description": "Irish poet, Fiction Writer and playwright"
  },
  {
    "name": "Owais Ahmad Dauran",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/owais-ahmad-dauran",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "active_years": "1938",
    "description": "Prominent progressive poet known for his biograpghy 'Meri Kahani' and nazm 'ik bevafa ke naam'"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ozair Rahman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ozair-rahman",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1949",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ozair Yusuf",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ozair-yusuf",
    "location": "Punjab",
    "active_years": "1989",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "P P Srivastava Rind",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/p-p-srivastava-rind",
    "location": "Noida",
    "active_years": "1950",
    "description": "Well-known poet/Living in Noida"
  },
  {
    "name": "P. C. Kuttikrishnan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/p-c-kuttikrishnan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1915 -1979",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "P. Keshav Dev",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/p-keshav-dev",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pablo Neruda",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/pablo-neruda",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1904 -1973",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pagal Adilabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pagal-adilabadi",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1941 -2007",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Paigham Aafaqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/paigham-aafaqi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1956 -2016",
    "description": "Prominent post-modernist fiction writer and poet; known well for his novel Paleeta."
  },
  {
    "name": "Paikan Chandpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/paikan-chandpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Paikar Jafari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/paikar-jafari",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Paikar Yazdani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/paikar-yazdani",
    "location": "Saharanpur",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pakiza Beg",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pakiza-beg",
    "location": "England",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pallav Mishra",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pallav-mishra",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": "Young Urdu Poet"
  },
  {
    "name": "Pallavi Mishra",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pallavi-mishra",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Aks Lucknowi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-aks-lucknowi",
    "location": "Australia",
    "active_years": "1964",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Chandr Bhan Barahman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-chandr-bhan-barahman",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1574 -1662",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Daya Shankar Naseem Lakhnawi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-daya-shankar-naseem-lakhnawi",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1811 -1845",
    "description": "One of the most celebrated 19th century Lucknow poets, author of the renowned masnavi gulzaar-e-naseem"
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Jagmohan Nath Raina Shauq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-jagmohan-nath-raina-shauq",
    "location": "Shahjahanpur",
    "active_years": "1863",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Jawahar Nath Saqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-jawahar-nath-saqi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1864 -1916",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Tribhuvannath Zutshi Zar Dehlvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-tribhuvannath-zutshi-zar-dehlvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1956",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Vidya Rattan Asi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-vidya-rattan-asi",
    "location": "Jammu",
    "active_years": "1938 -2019",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pankaj Sarhadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pankaj-sarhadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pankaj Subeer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pankaj-subeer",
    "location": "Madhya Pradesh",
    "active_years": "1975",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Panna Lal Noor",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/panna-lal-noor",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Panna Lal Patel",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/panna-lal-patel",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Paras Mazari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/paras-mazari",
    "location": "Bahawalpur",
    "active_years": "1985",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Paraveen Rai",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/paraveen-rai",
    "location": "Ghazipur",
    "active_years": "1995",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pardeep Sahil",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pardeep-sahil",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pareshan Lakhnavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pareshan-lakhnavi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parkash Fikri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parkash-fikri",
    "location": "Ranchi",
    "active_years": "1931 -2008",
    "description": "Zahirul Haq alias Prakash Fikri, was a modernist Urdu poet famous for his collections of poetry such as; Safar Sitara and Ek Zara Si Barish."
  },
  {
    "name": "Parkash Nath Parvez",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parkash-nath-parvez",
    "location": "Aligarh",
    "active_years": "1930",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parmod Lal Yakta",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/parmod-lal-yakta",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parsa Kausari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parsa-kausari",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Partav Rohila",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/partav-rohila",
    "location": "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa",
    "active_years": "1932 -2016",
    "description": "Poet, Researcher and Translator/Known for Urdu translation of Ghalib’s Persian letters."
  },
  {
    "name": "Parul Singh Noor",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parul-singh-noor",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1989",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Atif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/parveen-atif",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1935 -2018",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Fana Syed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-fana-syed",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1936 -2010",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Kaif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-kaif-1",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1956",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Kumar Ashk",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-kumar-ashk",
    "location": "Pathankot",
    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Mirza",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-mirza",
    "location": "London",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Sajal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-sajal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Shaghaf",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-shaghaf",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1980",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Shakir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-shakir",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1952 -1994",
    "description": "One of the most popular woman poets who gave expression to feelings and experiences specific to women."
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Sultana Saba",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-sultana-saba",
    "location": "Canada",
    "active_years": "1959",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Tahir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-tahir",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1958",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Umm-e-Mushtaq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-umm-e-mushtaq",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1866",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parvez Ahmad Parvez",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parvez-ahmad-parvez",
    "location": "Jamshedpur",
    "active_years": "1968",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parvez akhtar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parvez-akhtar",
    "location": "Bijnor",
    "active_years": "1966",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parvez Anjum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/parvez-anjum",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parvez Ashrafi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/parvez-ashrafi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1955",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parvez Baghi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parvez-baghi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parvez Bazmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parvez-bazmi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qabil Ajmeri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qabil-ajmeri",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1931 -1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qabil Dehlvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qabil-dehlvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadeemi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadeemi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadeer Ayaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadeer-ayaz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadeer Lakhnavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadeer-lakhnavi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1898 -1969",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadeer Piyarepuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qadeer-piyarepuri",
    "location": "Bahraich",
    "active_years": "1914 -1968",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadir Khan Sartaj",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadir-khan-sartaj",
    "location": "England",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadir Siddiqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadir-siddiqi",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1923",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadr Aurangabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadr-aurangabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1785",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadr Bilgrami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadr-bilgrami",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1933 -1884",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadr Oraizi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadr-oraizi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "A poet of classical temper from Hyderabad, known for his Rubais"
  },
  {
    "name": "Qais Jalandhari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qais-jalandhari",
    "location": "Jalandhar",
    "active_years": "1904 -1994",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qais Kakorvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qais-kakorvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qais Rampuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qais-rampuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1974",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Abbas",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-abbas",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Afghani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-afghani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Amravatwi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-amravatwi",
    "location": "Akola",
    "active_years": "1894 -1966",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Azeez",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qaisar-azeez",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Haideri Dehlvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-haideri-dehlvi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1928 -1992",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar hayat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-hayat",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Nizami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-nizami",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Qalandar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-qalandar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Shameem",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-shameem",
    "location": "West Bengal",
    "active_years": "1936 -2021",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Siddiqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-siddiqi",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "active_years": "1937 -2018",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Tamkeen",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qaisar-tamkeen",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1938",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Usmani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-usmani",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1919 -2000",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Zahidi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qaisar-zahidi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Ziya Qaisar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-ziya-qaisar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisarul Jafri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisarul-jafri",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1926 -2005",
    "description": "Famous for his ghazal \"Divaron se mil kar rona achcha lagta hai\"."
  },
  {
    "name": "Qalaq Merathi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qalaq-merathi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1832/3 -1880",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaleel Jhansvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaleel-jhansvi",
    "location": "Gurgaon",
    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Aasi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-aasi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1987",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Abbas Qamar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-abbas-qamar",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1993",
    "description": "Prominent among upcoming generation of urdu poets."
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Ahsan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qamar-ahsan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1943",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Anjum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qamar-anjum",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1971",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Badarpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-badarpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Badayuni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-badayuni",
    "location": "Badayun",
    "active_years": "1876 -1941",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Gwaliari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qamar-gwaliari",
    "location": "Gwalior",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Hashmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-hashmi",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1924 -1993",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Hilali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qamar-hilali",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Iqbal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-iqbal",
    "location": "Aurangabad",
    "active_years": "1944 -1988",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Jahan Naseer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-jahan-naseer",
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    "description": "Famous indian poet who migrated to Pakistan. He earned polularity with many of his oft-quoted shers."
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-jameel",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/raaz-layalpuri",
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    "active_years": "1908 -1963",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/raazdan-raaz",
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    "name": "Rab Nawaz Mael",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Rabab Rashidi",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "description": "Young story writer, critic, and columnist from Pakistan; also known for her individual critical stance."
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/rabia-barni",
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    "active_years": "1924",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/rabia-basri",
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    "name": "Rabia Fakhri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/rabia-fakhri",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/rabia-sultana-nashad",
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    "active_years": "1921",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "active_years": null,
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    "description": "Represents the new generation of Pakistani fiction writers; known for his novel 'Meer Wah Ki Raatein'"
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    "active_years": null,
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/rafi-ahmad",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/rafi-ahmad-aali",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/rafi-badayuni",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "active_years": "1952 -2019",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Rafi Yusufi Mahram",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/rafi-yusufi-mahram",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "active_years": "1934",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/rafia-zainab",
    "location": "Bangalore",
    "active_years": "1995",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/rafie-ajmeri",
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    "active_years": "1907 -1939",
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  {
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/s-masooque-ahmad",
    "location": "kashmir",
    "active_years": "1992",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "S. H. Bihari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/s-h-bihari-1",
    "location": "Deoghar",
    "active_years": "1920 -1987",
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  {
    "name": "S. K. Pottekkatt",
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    "active_years": "1913 -1982",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "S. M. Salim Tanveer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/s-m-salim-tanveer",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "S. Nooruddin Anwar Bhopali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/s-nooruddin-anwar-bhopali",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saa’in Alig",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saa-in-alig",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saabir-jauharii",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1965",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Saabir Usmani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saabir-usmani",
    "location": "Mirzapur",
    "active_years": "1979",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saadat Aabidi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/saadat-aabidi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saadat-bandvi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/saadat-hasan-manto",
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    "description": "World-renowned Urdu fiction writers. Known for masterpieces like Thanda Gosht, Khol Do, Toba Tek Singh etc."
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    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saadat Syed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saadat-syed",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saadullah Kaleem",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saadullah-kaleem",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-2004",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saadullah Khan Asar Malkapur",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saadullah-khan-asar-malkapur",
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    "active_years": "1933",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saadullah Shah",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saadullah-shah",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1958",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Saaieb S. M. Patil",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saaieb-s-m-patil",
    "location": "Maharashtra",
    "active_years": "1984",
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saail-dehlvi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1867 -1945",
    "description": "Prominent later-classical poet who was related to Nawab of Loharu. His name was suggested by Mirza Ghalib. He was son-in-law of Dagh Dehlavi"
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  {
    "name": "Saarik Khan Saarik",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saarik-khan-saarik",
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    "active_years": "1990",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saba Afghani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-afghani",
    "location": "Rampur",
    "active_years": "1922 -1976",
    "description": "Ghazal poet and film lyricist"
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-akbarabadi",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1908 -1991",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saba Akhtar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-akhtar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saba Alam Shah",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-alam-shah",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saba Azeez",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-azeez",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saba Bilgrami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/saba-bilgrami",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1955",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saba Ikram",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-ikram",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1945",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Saba Jayasi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-jayasi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saba Mumtaz Bano",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/saba-mumtaz-bano",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1985",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Saba Naqvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-naqvi",
    "location": "Patna",
    "active_years": "1940",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Saba Nusrat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-nusrat",
    "location": "USA",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saba Shah",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-shah",
    "location": "kashmir",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Saba Tabish",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-tabish",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": "1999",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Sabahat Firdaus",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/sabahat-firdaus",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Sabahat Urooj",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/sabahat-urooj",
    "location": "Dera Gazi Khan",
    "active_years": "1995",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Sabeeha Farhat Sambhali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/sabeeha-farhat-sambhali",
    "location": "Sambhal",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Sabeela Inam Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/sabeela-inam-siddiqui",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Sabeen Ali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/sabeen-ali",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1975",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Sabeen Yunus",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/sabeen-yunus",
    "location": "Islamabad",
    "active_years": "1957",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "SabeenSaif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/sabeensaif",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Sabeer Haka",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/sabeer-haka",
    "location": "Tehran",
    "active_years": "1986",
    "description": "Kermanshah-born construction worker and poet. Known for giving voice to the realities of Iran's working class."
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  {
    "name": "Sabih Ulhassan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/sabih-ulhassan",
    "location": "Punjab",
    "active_years": "1988",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Sabiha Anwar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/sabiha-anwar",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1948",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Sabiha Khan",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/taban-abdul-hai",
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    "name": "Tabish Raihan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/tabish-raihan",
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    "active_years": "1986",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Tabish Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/tabish-siddiqui",
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    "active_years": "1939",
    "description": null
  },
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    "name": "Tafazzul Husain Khan Kaukab Dehlavi",
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/tahir-faraz",
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    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1995",
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    "active_years": "1952",
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    "active_years": "1987",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umair-manzar",
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    "active_years": "1974",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Umair Najmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umair-najmi",
    "location": "Rahim Yar Khan",
    "active_years": "1986",
    "description": "Prominent young poet"
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  {
    "name": "Umang Bali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umang-bali",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umar-alam",
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    "active_years": "2001",
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    "name": "Umar Ansari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umar-ansari",
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    "active_years": "1912 -2005",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Umar Aurangabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umar-aurangabadi",
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    "description": null
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    "name": "Umar Farhat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umar-farhat",
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    "active_years": "1986",
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    "name": "Umar Farooq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umar-farooq",
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    "active_years": null,
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umar-khaleeq-azmi",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1993",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Umar Quraishi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/umar-quraishi",
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    "active_years": "1924 -2010",
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    "active_years": "1999",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umr-daraz-hashir",
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    "active_years": "1990",
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  },
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    "active_years": "1993",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/urmila-madhav",
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    "active_years": "1942 -2021",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/urooj-jafri",
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  {
    "name": "Urooj Qadri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/urooj-qadri",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "name": "Urooj Zaidi Badayuni",
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    "location": "Rampur",
    "active_years": "1912 -1987",
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  {
    "name": "Urooj Zehra Zaidi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/urooj-zehra-zaidi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Uroosa Jilani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/uroosa-jilani",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/usama-zoraiz",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/usha-bhadoriya",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1954",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Usha Jha",
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    "description": null
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    "active_years": null,
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    "active_years": "1941",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aabid Adeeb",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aabid-adeeb",
    "location": "Udaipur",
    "active_years": "1937",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aabid Jafri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aabid-jafri",
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    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "aabid umar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aabid-umar",
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    "active_years": "1977",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aabida Urooj",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aabida-urooj",
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  {
    "name": "Aabidullah Ghazi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aabidullah-ghazi",
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    "active_years": "1936 -2021",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aadarsh Dubey",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aadarsh-dubey",
    "location": "Sagar",
    "active_years": "2001",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aadil Aseer Dehlvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aadil-aseer-dehlvi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1959 -2014",
    "description": "Browse top ebooks written by Aadil Aseer Dehlvi here. This page features all the popular ebooks by Aadil Aseer Dehlvi, selected by Rekhta for Urdu Ebook readers."
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  {
    "name": "Aadil Farhat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aadil-farhat",
    "location": "Jammu and Kashmir",
    "active_years": "1984",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aadil Rahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aadil-rahi",
    "location": "yavatmal",
    "active_years": "1993",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aadil Rasheed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aadil-rasheed",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1967",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aadil Raza Mansoori",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aadil-raza-mansoori",
    "location": "Jaipur",
    "active_years": "1978",
    "description": "Well-known poet and editor of literary journal 'Istefsaar'"
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  {
    "name": "Aafaq Banarasi  new",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aafaq-banarasi",
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    "active_years": "1934",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aafaque Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aafaque-siddiqui",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1928",
    "description": "Pakistani poet, journalist, and translator known for his book containing translations of Sindhi literature"
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  {
    "name": "Aaftab Lakhnvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aaftab-lakhnvi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aaftab Muztar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aaftab-muztar",
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    "active_years": "1959",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aaftab Rais Panipati",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aaftab-rais-panipati",
    "location": "Panipat",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "A poet known for his poems on personalities, incidents, festivals, and topical issues. Also wrote a play called 'Hindustani Soorma'"
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  {
    "name": "Aaga nisaar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aaga-nisaar",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aagha Akbarabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aagha-akbarabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1879",
    "description": "Prominent classical poet and contemporary of Dagh Dehlavi, reflecting all the values of romantic bohimianism of classical Urdu ghazal."
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  {
    "name": "Aagha Ashraf",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aagha-ashraf",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aagha Babar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aagha-babar",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1919 -1998",
    "description": "Noted fiction writer and playwright from Pakistan."
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  {
    "name": "Aah Sambhali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aah-sambhali",
    "location": "Sambhalpur",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aajiz Hengan Ghati",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aajiz-hengan-ghati",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1936 -2008",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Aajiz Meer Puri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aajiz-meer-puri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aakash Atharv",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aakash-atharv",
    "location": "Basti",
    "active_years": "2003",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Aakif Ghani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aakif-ghani",
    "location": "France",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aalam Nizami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aalam-nizami",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1984",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aale Ahmad Suroor",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aale-ahmad-suroor",
    "location": "Aligarh",
    "active_years": "1911 -2002",
    "description": "One of the founders of modern Urdu criticism."
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  {
    "name": "Aal-e-Raza Raza",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aal-e-raza-raza",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1896 -1978",
    "description": "Prominent poet who mastered the poetic idiom of Lucknow poetry."
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  {
    "name": "Aal-e-Umar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aal-e-umar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1995",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aali Gopalpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/aali-gopalpuri",
    "location": "Balrampur",
    "active_years": "1912 -1980",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aalok Shrivastav",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aalok-shrivastav",
    "location": "Noida",
    "active_years": "1971",
    "description": "Eminent Poet and Lyricist"
  },
  {
    "name": "Aamil Darvesh",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamil-darvesh",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aamina Azfar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamina-azfar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aamina Mufti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamina-mufti",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aamir Ata",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamir-ata",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aamir Azher",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamir-azher-1",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1989",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aamir Riaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamir-riaz-1",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1993",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aamir Shauqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamir-shauqi",
    "location": "Banaras",
    "active_years": "1997",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aamir Suhail",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aamir-suhail",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1977",
    "description": "One of the prominent poets of Pakistan known for his unique responses to modern-day social issues in his Ghazals and Nazms"
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  {
    "name": "Aanand Akhtar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aanand-akhtar",
    "location": "Bettiah",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Aanand Saroop Anjum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aanand-saroop-anjum",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "Prominent among the poets of Kashmir, published two collections, 'Raaste Manzilein' and 'Patta Patta'"
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  {
    "name": "Aanis Moin",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aanis-moin",
    "location": "Multan",
    "active_years": "1960 -1986",
    "description": "A promising poet from Pakistan who committed suicide at the age of 27"
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  {
    "name": "Aaquib Shaad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/aaquib-shaad",
    "location": "Hapur",
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "B S Jain Jauhar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/b-s-jain-jauhar",
    "location": "Meerut",
    "active_years": "1927",
    "description": "A disciple of Seemab Akbarabadi, published several collections of his ghazals and nazms"
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  {
    "name": "B.M Khan Maley",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bm-khan-maley",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1952",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Baba Moghaddam",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/baba-moghaddam",
    "location": "Tehran",
    "active_years": "1875 -1946",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Babar Ali Asad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/babar-ali-asad",
    "location": "Faisalabad",
    "active_years": "1980",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Babar Rehman Shah",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/babar-rehman-shah",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Babar Zuhrab",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/babar-zuhrab",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Babu Ladli Lal Laeq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/babu-ladli-lal-laeq",
    "location": "Mainpuri",
    "active_years": "1894",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Babu Ram Charan Lal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/babu-ram-charan-lal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baburao Bagul",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/baburao-bagul",
    "location": "Nashik",
    "active_years": "1930 -2008",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badiuzzaman Khawar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badiuzzaman-khawar",
    "location": "Ratnagiri",
    "active_years": "1938 -1990",
    "description": "Poet, writer and translator from Maharashtra, also translated Marathi poems into Urdu"
  },
  {
    "name": "Badiuzzaman Sahar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/badiuzzaman-sahar",
    "location": "Patna",
    "active_years": "1944",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badnam Nazar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badnam-nazar",
    "location": "Sheikhpura",
    "active_years": "1941 -2023",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr Azimabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/badr-azimabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Badr Jamali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badr-jamali",
    "location": "Tamil Nadu",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "One of the well-known poets of Tamil Nadu"
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr Jameel",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badr-jameel",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1946",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Badr Mohammadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/badr-mohammadi",
    "location": "Vaishali",
    "active_years": "1963",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr Muneer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badr-muneer",
    "location": "Khushab",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr Shamsi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/badr-shamsi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr Wasti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badr-wasti",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr-e-Alam Khalish",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badr-e-alam-khalish",
    "location": "Jamshedpur",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badr-e-Alam Khan Azmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/badr-e-alam-khan-azmi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badrinath Upadhyay 'Prem Dhan'",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badrinath-upadhyay-prem-dhan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Badrul Hasan Badar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/badrul-hasan-badar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baeem Hairati",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/baeem-hairati",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Bagh Husain Kamal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bagh-husain-kamal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Bahadur Shah Zafar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bahadur-shah-zafar",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1775 -1862",
    "description": "Last Mughal Emperor and contemporary of Ghalib and Zauq."
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  {
    "name": "Bahadur Singh Kam Badayuni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bahadur-singh-kam-badayuni",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baharunnisa Bahar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/baharunnisa-bahar",
    "location": "Multan",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Bahauddin Kaleem",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bahauddin-kaleem",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Bahram ji",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bahram-ji",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1828 -1895",
    "description": "Parsi religious scholar who deeply absorbed Urdu literary traditions and wrote poetry in Urdu and Persian"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bahram Tariq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bahram-tariq",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Bahzad Fatami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/bahzad-fatami",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1914",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baig Ehsas",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/baig-ehsas",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1948",
    "description": "Noted story writer, a recipient of Sahitya Akademi award."
  },
  {
    "name": "Bakhsh Layalpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bakhsh-layalpuri",
    "location": "London",
    "active_years": "1934 -2002",
    "description": "A people’s poet with progressive leanings, also served as the president of  Progressive Writers Association of UK"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bakhtiyar Ziya",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bakhtiyar-ziya",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1922 -1984",
    "description": "One of the better-known poets of  Bhopal, was influenced by Progressive Writers Movement"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bakul Dev",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bakul-dev",
    "location": "Jaipur",
    "active_years": "1980",
    "description": "A new age Indian poet"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bal Krishn",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bal-krishn-1",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Bal Mukund Besabr",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bal-mukund-besabr",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1812/13 -1885",
    "description": "A poet-mentor, favourite disciple of Mirza Ghalib"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bal Swaroop Rahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/bal-swaroop-rahi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1936",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balbir Rathi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balbir-rathi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balbir Singh Rang",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balbir-singh-rang",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baldev Raaj",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/baldev-raaj",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1924",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Baldev singh Hamdam",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/baldev-singh-hamdam",
    "location": "Kurukshetra",
    "active_years": "1922",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balmohan panday",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balmohan-panday",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balraj Bakshi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balraj-bakshi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balraj Hairat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balraj-hairat",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1930 -1995",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balraj Hayat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balraj-hayat",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balraj Komal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balraj-komal",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1928 -2013",
    "description": "One of the leading modern poets and short story writer, who made outstanding contribution to modern Urdu Nazm in India."
  },
  {
    "name": "Balraj Kumar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/balraj-kumar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Balraj Menra",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/balraj-menra",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1935 -2016",
    "description": "Most prominent modernist fiction writer, celebrated for his symbolic stories; also the compiler of journal 'Shuoor'."
  },
  {
    "name": "Captain Alexander Hederly Azad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/captain-alexander-hederly-azad",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1829 -1861",
    "description": "European poet of the classical period whose father adopted the Indian way of life. Published a divan containing ghazls and poems in other poetical genres"
  },
  {
    "name": "Captain Damingo Paul Lizwa",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/captain-damingo-paul-lizwa",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1838 -1903",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Captain Syed Fayyaz Mahmood",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/captain-syed-fayyaz-mahmood",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1906 -1994",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chakbast Brij Narayan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chakbast-brij-narayan",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1882 -1926",
    "description": "Leading early 20th century poet. Famous for his Nazm on Ramayan. Wrote oft-quoted sher 'Zindagi kya hai anasir men zahur-e-tartib…'."
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  {
    "name": "Chaman Bhatnagar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chaman-bhatnagar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1925",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaman Lal Chaman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chaman-lal-chaman",
    "location": "London",
    "active_years": "1934 -2019",
    "description": "Poet, lyricist and radio broadcaster; wrote poetry in Urdu and Punjabi. His lyrics were sung by celebrated singers like Asha Bhonsle and Jagjit Singh"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaman Sitapuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chaman-sitapuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chand Akbarabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chand-akbarabadi",
    "location": "Agra",
    "active_years": "1975",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chand Kakralvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chand-kakralvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1979",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandar Bhan Kaifi Dehelvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandar-bhan-kaifi-dehelvi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1878/79 -1941",
    "description": "Well-known for his poems on interesting topics; also wrote patriotic poems. Taught Persian for a long period of time"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chander Wahid",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chander-wahid",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1958",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandni Pandey",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandni-pandey",
    "location": "Kanpur",
    "active_years": "1974",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandra Parkash Jauhar Bijnauri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandra-parkash-jauhar-bijnauri",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1923 -1995",
    "description": "A poet of traditional style, popular in Mushairas"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandra Parkash Shad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandra-parkash-shad",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "One of the prominent modern poets"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandra Shekhar Varma",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandra-shekhar-varma",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1967",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandrabhan Khayal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandrabhan-khayal",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1946",
    "description": "Well-known nazm poet"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandrakant Bakshi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chandrakant-bakshi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1932 -2006",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandrashekhar Pandey Shams",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandrashekhar-pandey-shams",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1984",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chandu Lal Bahadur Shadan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chandu-lal-bahadur-shadan",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1763 -1845",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Charagh Barelvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/charagh-barelvi",
    "location": "Bareilly",
    "active_years": "1988",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Charagh Sharma",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/charagh-sharma",
    "location": "Chandausi",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Charan Singh Bashar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/charan-singh-bashar",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1957",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Charkh Chinioti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/charkh-chinioti",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "Famous for his nazms and ghazals of romantic nature; influenced by Akhtar Sheerani"
  },
  {
    "name": "Charles Bukowski",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/charles-bukowski",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1920 -1994",
    "description": "American poet, novelist, and short story writer"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chashma Farooqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chashma-farooqi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaudhari Mohammad Ali Rudaulvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chaudhari-mohammad-ali-rudaulvi",
    "location": "Rudauli",
    "active_years": "1882 -1959",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaudhary Kalka Prashad Ijad Biswani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chaudhary-kalka-prashad-ijad-biswani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaudhary Mohammad Naeem",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chaudhary-mohammad-naeem",
    "location": "USA",
    "active_years": "1936",
    "description": "Prominent scholar and literary critic who writes both in Urdu and English living in U.S.A"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaudhary Sher Jung",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chaudhary-sher-jung",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chetan Panchal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chetan-panchal",
    "location": "Gujarat",
    "active_years": "1992",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chhabi Saksena Sahai Saba",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chhabi-saksena-sahai-saba",
    "location": "UAE",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chiragh Hasan Hasrat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chiragh-hasan-hasrat",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1904 -1955",
    "description": "A poet and Journalist. Famous especially for his humorous columns."
  },
  {
    "name": "Chiraguddin Charagh",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chiraguddin-charagh",
    "location": "Burhanpur",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chirikof",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chirikof",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chitra Bhardwaj suman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chitra-bhardwaj-suman",
    "location": "Jaipur",
    "active_years": "1986",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chitransh Khare",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chitransh-khare",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1989",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chonch Gayawi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chonch-gayawi",
    "location": "Gaya",
    "active_years": "1967",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Chunchal Sialkoti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/chunchal-sialkoti",
    "location": "Sialkot",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "One of the important poets of humour to emerge during the 60s"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chunni Lal Madiya",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chunni-lal-madiya",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Col. Mohammad Khan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/col-mohammad-khan",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1910 -1999",
    "description": "One of the most prominent writers of humour and satire in pakistan."
  },
  {
    "name": "D K Kanwal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/d-k-kanwal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "D. Raj Kanwal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/d-raj-kanwal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1923",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daem Gawwasi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daem-gawwasi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dagh Dehlvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dagh-dehlvi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1831 -1905",
    "description": "Last of classical poets who celebrated life and love. Famous for  his playfulness of words (idioms/ phrases)."
  },
  {
    "name": "dagh Niyazi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dagh-niyazi-1",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1954",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dakhlan Bhopali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dakhlan-bhopali",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1973",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Damodar Thakur Zaki",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/damodar-thakur-zaki",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "One of the important poets from Gulbarga; worked tirelessly for the cause of Urdu"
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Aligarhi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-aligarhi",
    "location": "Aligarh",
    "active_years": "1931",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Amiri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-amiri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Asari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-asari",
    "location": "Maunath Bhanjan",
    "active_years": "1991",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Aziz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-aziz",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1970",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Ejaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-ejaz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Farahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-farahi",
    "location": "Azamgarh",
    "active_years": "1949 -2023",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Farazi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-farazi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1924 -1980",
    "description": "One of the important poets from Tamil Nadu, known for his qitaat"
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Hayat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-hayat",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Naqwi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-naqwi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1995",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Danish Nazeer Dani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/danish-nazeer-dani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daniyal Tareer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daniyal-tareer",
    "location": "Quetta",
    "active_years": "1980 -2015",
    "description": "One of the prominent young poets from Pakistan; died early of a deadly disease"
  },
  {
    "name": "Daniyal Zaman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daniyal-zaman",
    "location": "Khushab",
    "active_years": "1996",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daood Kaashmiri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daood-kaashmiri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daood Mohsin",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/daood-mohsin",
    "location": "Davanagere",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": "One of the contemporary short story writers"
  },
  {
    "name": "Dard Asadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dard-asadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1919 -1990",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dard Faiz Khan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dard-faiz-khan",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "2003",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dard Saeedi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dard-saeedi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "A poet from Tonk estate, migrated to Pakistan following the Partition; published a collection called Shola-e-Jaan"
  },
  {
    "name": "Dard Sironji",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/dard-sironji",
    "location": "Sironj",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Darshan Dayal Parwaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/darshan-dayal-parwaz",
    "location": "Jalandhar",
    "active_years": "1935",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Darshan Singh",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/darshan-singh",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1921 -1989",
    "description": "Known for his poetry of mystical and spiritual leanings; wrote poems on major religious and spiritual characters"
  },
  {
    "name": "Darshika wasani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/darshika-wasani",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1986",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "darvesh bharti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/darvesh-bharti",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1937",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Datatiri Rao",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/datatiri-rao",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dattatriya Kaifi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dattatriya-kaifi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1866 -1955",
    "description": "Prominent scholar of Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit"
  },
  {
    "name": "Daud Ghazi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daud-ghazi",
    "location": "Ratnagiri",
    "active_years": "1932 -1963",
    "description": "A poet influenced by progressive thoughts, committed suicide at an early age"
  },
  {
    "name": "Daud Naseeb",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/daud-naseeb",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daud Nishat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/daud-nishat",
    "location": "Kadapa",
    "active_years": "1929 -1992",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daulat Aasiri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daulat-aasiri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1795",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daulat Ram Sabir Panipati",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/daulat-ram-sabir-panipati",
    "location": "Panipat",
    "active_years": "-1961",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Daur Afridi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/daur-afridi",
    "location": "Rampur",
    "active_years": "1930 -1992",
    "description": "One of the romantic poets; also published a collection of romantic poems called Roomaniyaat"
  },
  {
    "name": "Davarka Das Shola",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/davarka-das-shola",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1910 -1983",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dawood Kashmiri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/dawood-kashmiri",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dawood Khan Raaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dawood-khan-raaz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1934",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Dawood Rizwan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/dawood-rizwan",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "An important nazm poet from Pakistan"
  },
  {
    "name": "Deeba Salam",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/deeba-salam",
    "location": "Allahabd",
    "active_years": "1981",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deedar Akbarpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/deedar-akbarpuri",
    "location": "Iran",
    "active_years": "1996",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deedar Bastawi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/deedar-bastawi",
    "location": "Basti",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deepak Budki",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/deepak-budki",
    "location": "Jammu and Kashmir",
    "active_years": "1950",
    "description": "Noted story writer known for his stories on contemporary and psychological issues; also wrote critical pieces on the present state of fiction."
  },
  {
    "name": "Deepak Danish",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/deepak-danish",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deepak Jain Deep",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/deepak-jain-deep",
    "location": "Guna",
    "active_years": "1961",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deepak Kamil",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/deepak-kamil",
    "location": "Rajasthan",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deepak Kanwal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/deepak-kanwal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Deepak Purohit",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/deepak-purohit",
    "location": "Jaipur",
    "active_years": "1954",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehqar Jhanswi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehqar-jhanswi",
    "location": "Jhansi",
    "active_years": "1880 -1959",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsaan Ghaman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsaan-ghaman",
    "location": "Gujrat",
    "active_years": "1981",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsaan Sabz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsaan-sabz",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Akbar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-akbar",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1938",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Akhtar Ghazipuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ehsan-akhtar-ghazipuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Ali Khan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-ali-khan",
    "location": "Islamabad",
    "active_years": "1922 -1991",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Asghar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-asghar",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Danish",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-danish",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1914 -1982",
    "description": "One of the most popular poets in the fourth and fifth decades of 20th century, contemporary of Faiz Ahmad Faiz."
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Darbhangavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-darbhangavi",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "active_years": "1922 -1998",
    "description": "A prominent Progressive poet"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Jafri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-jafri",
    "location": "Ahmedabad",
    "active_years": "1929 -2002",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Nanparwi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ehsan-nanparwi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-2010",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Razaa",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-razaa",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Saqib",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsan-saqib",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1943",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsan Sehgal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ehsan-sehgal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsanul Haq Mazhar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsanul-haq-mazhar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ehsas Gayawi",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehsas-magahri",
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    "active_years": "1983",
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    "active_years": "1969",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Ehtisham ul Haq Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehtisham-ul-haq-siddiqui",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "name": "Ehya Bhojpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ehya-bhojpuri",
    "location": "Dubai",
    "active_years": "1977",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Ejaaz Ahamd",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaaz-ahamd",
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    "active_years": "1932",
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    "name": "Ejaaz Talib",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaaz-talib",
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    "active_years": null,
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  {
    "name": "Ejaaz tawakkal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaaz-tawakkal",
    "location": "Bahawalpur",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Ejaz Ahmad Ejaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-ahmad-ejaz",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ejaz-ajmeri",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ejaz-ali-arshad",
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-asif",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-farooqi",
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    "active_years": "1935",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ejaz Gilani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-gilani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Gul",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-gul",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Haidar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-haidar",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1963",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Kamravi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-kamravi",
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  {
    "name": "Ejaz Manpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-manpuri",
    "location": "Gaya",
    "active_years": "1963",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ejaz Obaid",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-obaid",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-parwana",
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    "active_years": "1972",
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    "active_years": "1964",
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "active_years": "1942 -2006",
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-rahmani",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1936 -2019",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Ejaz Rizvi",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "name": "Ejaz Shakir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ejaz-shakir",
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    "description": "Prominent Urdu poet who edited the literary Journal 'Shaair'. Son of Seemab Akbarabadi"
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    "description": "One of the most prominent Urdu poets of pre-Mir era, who laid the foundation of Urdu poetry"
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    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1984",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faheem-amrohvi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faheem-hairat-raheemi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faheem-jogapuri",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faheem-jozi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faheem-shanas-kazmi",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1965",
    "description": null
  },
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/fahmi-badayuni",
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    "active_years": "1952",
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    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1974",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-farooq",
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    "active_years": "2002",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-fehmi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-imam-rizvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1988",
    "description": null
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    "location": "Anantnag",
    "active_years": "2001",
    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1990",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-malik",
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    "active_years": "1982",
    "description": null
  },
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-nadeem-faisal",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1983",
    "description": null
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-rehan",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faisal-saghar",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faiyaz-gwaliari",
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    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1953",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz",
    "location": "Mumbai",
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-alam-babar",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-anwar",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1965",
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-dakani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1682",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Faiz Jhanjhanvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faiz-jhanjhanvi",
    "location": "Faisalabad",
    "active_years": "1910 -1981",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-khalilabadi",
    "location": "Sant Kabir Nagar",
    "active_years": "1980",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-ludhianvi",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1911 -1995",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faiz-rahil-khan",
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    "description": null
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faiz-tabassum-tonsvi",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faizan-arif",
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    "active_years": "1967",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faizan-asad",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1986",
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faizan-hashmi",
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    "active_years": "1986",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/faizan-nadir",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Faizi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/faizi",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1965",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "G A Kulkarni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/g-a-kulkarni",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1923 -1987",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "G L Rawal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/g-l-rawal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/g-r-kanwal-1",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1935",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/g-r-vashishth",
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    "active_years": "1996",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gaazi-moin",
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    "active_years": "1978",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gaffar-babar",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "active_years": "1932 -2008",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ganesh Gaikwad Aaghaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ganesh-gaikwad-aaghaz",
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    "active_years": "1970",
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gauhar-begum-gauhar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gauhar-hoshiyarpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1930 -2000",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Gauhar Naushahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gauhar-naushahi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gauhar-raza",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1956",
    "description": "Indian scientist,a leading Urdu poet, social activist and documentary filmmaker"
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gauhar-seema",
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    "active_years": null,
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  {
    "name": "Gauhar Shaikh Purwi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gauhar-shaikh-purwi",
    "location": "Patna",
    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Gauhar Usmani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gauhar-usmani",
    "location": "Moradabad",
    "active_years": "1924 -2004",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Gaurav Trivedi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gaurav-trivedi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1990",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Gautam Rajrishi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gautam-rajrishi",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "active_years": "1975",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Gawwas Qureshi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gawwas-qureshi",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": "1898",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Gawwasi Bedri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gawwasi-bedri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Gayatri Mehta",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/gayatri-mehta",
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    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Geeta Thakur Raushni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/geeta-thakur-raushni",
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  {
    "name": "Geetanjali Geet",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/geetanjali-geet",
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    "active_years": "1997",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Geetanjali Rai",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/geetanjali-rai",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1990",
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  {
    "name": "George Puech Shor",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/george-puech-shor",
    "location": "Meerut",
    "active_years": "1823 -1894",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "George Varghese Kakkanadan",
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    "active_years": "1935 -2011",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghail-fareedi",
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  {
    "name": "Ghail Jaunpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghail-jaunpuri",
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  {
    "name": "Ghalib Ahmad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghalib-ahmad",
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    "active_years": "1928",
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  {
    "name": "Ghalib Ayaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghalib-ayaz",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1981",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ghalib Irfan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghalib-irfan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1938",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Gham Bijnori",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/gham-bijnori",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ghamgeen Dehlvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghamgeen-dehlvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1753 -1851",
    "description": "Prominent Sufi poet for whom Mirza Ghalib had great devotion"
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  {
    "name": "Ghamgeen Qureshi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ghamgeen-qureshi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ghani Ahmad Ghani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghani-ahmad-ghani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1937",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ghani Dehlvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghani-dehlvi",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1925",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ghani Ejaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghani-ejaz",
    "location": "Akola",
    "active_years": "1929 -2010",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ghani Ghayoor",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghani-ghayoor",
    "location": "Jammu and Kashmir",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ghanshyam Desai",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghanshyam-desai",
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    "active_years": "1934",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ghaus Khah makhah Hyderabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghaus-khah-makhah-hyderabadi",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1929 -2017",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ghaus Mohammad Ghausi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghaus-mohammad-ghausi",
    "location": "Aligarh",
    "active_years": "1927",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ghaus Siwani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghaus-siwani",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1969",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ghausi Shah",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ghausi-shah",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ghausiya Khan Sabeen",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghausiya-khan-sabeen",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1980",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ghayas Ahmad Gaddi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ghayas-ahmad-gaddi",
    "location": "Patna",
    "active_years": "1928 -1986",
    "description": "One of the prominent story writers, known for his story Parinda Pakadne Wali Gaadi."
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  {
    "name": "Ghayas Anjum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghayas-anjum",
    "location": "Bokaro",
    "active_years": "1950",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Ghayas Mateen",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghayas-mateen",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1939",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ghayur Jafari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghayur-jafari",
    "location": "Kamptee",
    "active_years": "1946 -2001",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ghazal Ansari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ghazal-ansari",
    "location": "England",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ghazal Jafari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ghazal-jafari",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1960",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ghazal Zaigham",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ghazal-zaigham",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "H. B. Baloch",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/h-b-baloch",
    "location": "Sindh",
    "active_years": "1978",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Haatif Aarifi Fatehpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/haatif-aarifi-fatehpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habab Hashmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habab-hashmi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habab Tirmizi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habab-tirmizi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habeeb Aarvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-aarvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habeeb Ahmad Anjum Datiavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/habeeb-ahmad-anjum-datiavi",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habeeb Ahmad Ashaar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-ahmad-ashaar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Habeeb Ahmad Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-ahmad-siddiqui",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1908",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Habeeb Ahmar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-ahmar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Habeeb Amrohvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-amrohvi",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1928 -1999",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Habeeb Ashar Dehlavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-ashar-dehlavi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1919 -1971",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Habeeb Fakhri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-fakhri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habeeb Hashmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-hashmi",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habeeb Hyderabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-hyderabadi",
    "location": "London",
    "active_years": "1924 -1989",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habeeb Jaunpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/habeeb-jaunpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Habeeb Kaifi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-kaifi",
    "location": "Jodhpur",
    "active_years": "1945",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habeeb Khan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-khan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habeeb Moosavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-moosavi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Habeeb Rahat Habab",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habeeb-rahat-habab",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Habeeb Rethpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/habeeb-rethpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habeeb Saifi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/habeeb-saifi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habib Jalib",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habib-jalib",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1928 -1993",
    "description": "Popular poet from Pakistan, known for his anti-establishment poetry, having mass following."
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  {
    "name": "Habib Rehman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habib-rehman",
    "location": "Jodhpur",
    "active_years": "1994",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habib Tanvir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habib-tanvir",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1923 -2009",
    "description": "One of the most well-known contemporary Drama personality, famous for his play \"Agra-Baazar\"."
  },
  {
    "name": "Habib.I.Kinkhabwala",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habibikinkhabwala",
    "location": "Surat",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Habibur Rahman Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/habibur-rahman-siddiqui",
    "location": "Amravati",
    "active_years": "1901 -1971",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hadeed Fatema",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hadeed-fatema",
    "location": "Sialkot",
    "active_years": "2001",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hadi Machlishahri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hadi-machlishahri",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1890 -1961",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hadi Mustafabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hadi-mustafabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hadi Rifat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hadi-rifat",
    "location": "Bangalore",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hadis Salsal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hadis-salsal",
    "location": "Jhelum",
    "active_years": "1995",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Aatish",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/hafeez-aatish",
    "location": "Amroha",
    "active_years": "1942",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Banarasi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-banarasi",
    "location": "Banaras",
    "active_years": "1933 -2008",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Betab",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-betab",
    "location": "Jamshedpur",
    "active_years": "1941",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Fatima Barelvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-fatima-barelvi",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Hoshiarpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-hoshiarpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1912 -1973",
    "description": "Popular poet famous for his widely-sung ghazal \"mohabbat karne wale kam na honge, teri mahfil mein lekin ham na honge\"."
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Jalandhari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-jalandhari",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1900 -1982",
    "description": "Popular romantic poet made famous by Malika Pukhraj by singining ghazal \"abhi to main jawan huun\". Wrote the National Anthem of Pakistan."
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Jauhar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-jauhar",
    "location": "England",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Jaunpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-jaunpuri",
    "location": "Jaunpur",
    "active_years": "1865 -1918",
    "description": "Famous for his sher, 'Baith jaata hun jahan chhanv ghani hoti hai.'"
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Merathi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-merathi",
    "location": "Meerut",
    "active_years": "1922 -2000",
    "description": "One of the most popular poets, famous for his sher 'Sheesha toote gul mach jae, dil toote awaz na aae.'"
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Momin",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-momin",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1948",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Shahid",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-shahid",
    "location": "Rahim Yar Khan",
    "active_years": "1942 -2014",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Siddiqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-siddiqi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafeez Tabassum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafeez-tabassum",
    "location": "Multan",
    "active_years": "1990",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafiz Ahmad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafiz-ahmad",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafiz Dakni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafiz-dakni",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafiz Karnataki",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafiz-karnataki",
    "location": "Shimoga",
    "active_years": "1964",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafiz Ludhiyanvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafiz-ludhiyanvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafiz Pilibhiti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafiz-pilibhiti",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Hafiz Taib",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/hafiz-taib",
    "location": "Gujranwala",
    "active_years": "1931 -2004",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibadat Bareilvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibadat-bareilvi",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1920 -1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn e Insha",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibn-e-insha",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1927 -1978",
    "description": "Pakistani poet known for his ghazal \"kal chaudhanvi ki raat thi, shab bhar raha charcha tera\"."
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibnay Muneeb",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibnay-muneeb",
    "location": "Punjab",
    "active_years": "1979",
    "description": "Story writer and poet, published several collections of stories and poetry."
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibne Kanwal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibne-kanwal",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1957 -2023",
    "description": "One of the postmodernist story writers; author of several books of criticism."
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-e-Behroz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibn-e-behroz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-e-Mufti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibn-e-mufti",
    "location": "USA",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-e-Nashati",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibn-e-nashati",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1655",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-e-Raza",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibn-e-raza",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-e-Safi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibn-e-safi",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1928 -1980",
    "description": "Urdu poet who later became the most popular and renowned writer of detective novels in Urdu who earlier wrote Urdu poetry under the pen name of Asraar Naarvi."
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-e-Ummeed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibn-e-ummeed",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibn-ul-Hasan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibn-ul-hasan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibraheem Aajiz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibraheem-aajiz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibraheem Hosh",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibraheem-hosh",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": "1918 -1988",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibraheem Khaleel",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibraheem-khaleel",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1916 -1992",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrahim Ashk",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibrahim-ashk",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": "Film Lyricist, famous for his lyrics in the film 'Kaho na pyar hai'"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrahim Faiz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibrahim-faiz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrahim Jalees",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ibrahim-jalees",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1924 -1977",
    "description": "Noted Pakistani story writer and journalist; also wrote plays and travelogues."
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrahim Noori",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibrahim-noori",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1988",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrat Bahraichi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibrat-bahraichi",
    "location": "Bahraich",
    "active_years": "1933 -2021",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrat Gorakhpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibrat-gorakhpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1859 -1918",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrat Machlishahri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibrat-machlishahri",
    "location": "Jaunpur",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ibrat Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ibrat-siddiqui",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Idris Azad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/idris-azad",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Idris Babar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/idris-babar",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1973",
    "description": "Prominent among new generation poets of Pakistan"
  },
  {
    "name": "Idris Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/idris-siddiqui-2",
    "location": "Canada",
    "active_years": "1954",
    "description": "He has written 60 books for children about basic science and environmental issues."
  },
  {
    "name": "Iffat abbas",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iffat-abbas",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1963",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iffat Faridi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iffat-faridi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iffat Zarrin",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iffat-zarrin",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1958",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iffat Zeba Kakorvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iffat-zeba-kakorvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1924 -2002",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Aazmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-aazmi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1935 -1977",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Ahamad Siddiqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/iftikhar-ahamad-siddiqi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Ahmad Fakhr",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-ahmad-fakhr",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Ahmad Iqbal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-ahmad-iqbal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Arif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-arif",
    "location": "Islamabad",
    "active_years": "1943",
    "description": "One of the most prominent Pakistani poets, famous for his cultural romanticism."
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Bukhari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-bukhari",
    "location": "Punjab",
    "active_years": "1956",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Falak Kazmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-falak-kazmi",
    "location": "Paharpur",
    "active_years": "1992",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Haidar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-haidar",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1975",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Husain Muztar Khairabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-husain-muztar-khairabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Husain Rizwi Saeed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-husain-rizwi-saeed",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Imam Siddiqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-imam-siddiqi",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1947",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Jalib",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-jalib",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1936 -2003",
    "description": "Known for setting hyper-modernist trend in Pakistani Urdu criticism called 'Lisani Tashkilat'"
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Jameel Shaheen",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-jameel-shaheen",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Mughal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-mughal",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1961",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Naseem",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-naseem",
    "location": "USA",
    "active_years": "1946 -2011",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Qaisar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-qaisar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1937",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Raghib",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-raghib",
    "location": "Qatar",
    "active_years": "1973",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Sagar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-sagar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Shafi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-shafi",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1973",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Iftikhar Shahid Abu Saad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iftikhar-shahid-abu-saad",
    "location": "Sialkot",
    "active_years": "1960",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ijad Burhanpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ijad-burhanpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1771",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "J E Najm",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/j-e-najm",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1985",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "J Nandar Kumar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/j-nandar-kumar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "J. B. Kulkarni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/j-b-kulkarni",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "J. P. Saeed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/j-p-saeed",
    "location": "Aurangabad",
    "active_years": "1932",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jaani Lakhnavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jaani-lakhnavi",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jabbar Jameel",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jabbar-jameel",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jabbar Wasif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jabbar-wasif",
    "location": "Rahim Yar Khan",
    "active_years": "1975",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jabir Ali Syed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/jabir-ali-syed",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Abbas",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-abbas",
    "location": "California",
    "active_years": "1947 -2022",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Abbas Safvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-abbas-safvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1938",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Ali Hasrat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-ali-hasrat",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1734 -1792",
    "description": "Prominent contemporary of Mir Taqi Mir. Known for depiction of physicality in his romantic poetry"
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Ali Khan Zaki",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-ali-khan-zaki",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1764",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Askari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-askari",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Baluch",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-baluch",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1947",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Dakni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-dakni",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Malihabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/jafar-malihabadi",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1946",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Raza",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-raza",
    "location": "Allahabd",
    "active_years": "1939 -2022",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Sahni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-sahni",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": "1941 -2018",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Shirazi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-shirazi",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1920",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jafar Tahir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jafar-tahir",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1917 -1977",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagan Nath Azad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/jagan-nath-azad",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1918 -2004",
    "description": "Renowned Urdu scholar famous for his works on Iqbal. Wrote the first National Anthem of Pakistan."
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagat Mohan Lal Ravan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jagat-mohan-lal-ravan",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1889 -1934",
    "description": "Famous for his Rubai's and long poem on Gautam Budha."
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagdeesh Masoom",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jagdeesh-masoom",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagdeesh Raj Figar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jagdeesh-raj-figar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagdish Prakash",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jagdish-prakash",
    "location": "Gurgaon",
    "active_years": "1935",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagdish Sahay Saxena",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jagdish-sahay-saxena",
    "location": "Shahjahanpur",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jageshwar Dayal Nashtar Kanpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jageshwar-dayal-nashtar-kanpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagjeewan Lal Asthana sahar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/jagjeewan-lal-asthana-sahar",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jagjit Kafir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jagjit-kafir",
    "location": "Ludhiana",
    "active_years": "1979",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jah Kanpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jah-kanpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jahan Ara Tabassum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jahan-ara-tabassum",
    "location": "Quetta",
    "active_years": "1970",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jahangeer Imran",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jahangeer-imran",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jahangeer Khan Jauhar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jahangeer-khan-jauhar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1934 -2014",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jahangeer nayab",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jahangeer-nayab",
    "location": "Kishanganj",
    "active_years": "1985",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jahanzeb Sahir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jahanzeb-sahir",
    "location": "Faisalabad",
    "active_years": "1983",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jai Mani Sarshar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jai-mani-sarshar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jai Prakash Ghafil",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jai-prakash-ghafil",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jai Raj Singh Jhala",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jai-raj-singh-jhala",
    "location": "Ratlam",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jai Shree Thakur Shafaq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jai-shree-thakur-shafaq",
    "location": "Surat",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "JaiKrishn Chaudhry Habeeb",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jaikrishn-chaudhry-habeeb",
    "location": "Jabalpur",
    "active_years": "1904",
    "description": "Known for his role in Independence struggle, Urdu academics and literature"
  },
  {
    "name": "Jaimini Sarshar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jaimini-sarshar",
    "location": "Sonipat",
    "active_years": "1904 -1984",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jaishankar Prasad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jaishankar-prasad-1",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1889 -1937",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jalal Aarif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/jalal-aarif",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jalal Kakvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jalal-kakvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jalal Lakhnavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jalal-lakhnavi",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1832 -1909",
    "description": "One of the most prominent later classical poets at Lucknow who was associated with Rampur State."
  },
  {
    "name": "Jalal Manikpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jalal-manikpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jalaluddin Akbar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jalaluddin-akbar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1905 -1940",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jalee Amrohvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jalee-amrohvi",
    "location": "Pakistan",
    "active_years": "1922 -2013",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jaleel 'Aali'",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/jaleel-aali",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1945",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Jaleel Ahmad Qidwai",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/jaleel-ahmad-qidwai",
    "location": "Islamabad",
    "active_years": "1904 -1996",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "K K Nanda Ashk",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/k-k-nanda-ashk",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1939",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "K. Bauccha",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/k-bauccha",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "K. Satchidanandan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/k-satchidanandan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1946",
    "description": "Reknowned poet and critic, writing in Malayalam and English"
  },
  {
    "name": "Kaami Shah",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaami-shah",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1979",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kabeer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kabeer",
    "location": "Banaras",
    "active_years": "1440 -1518",
    "description": "Prominent saint-poet of the Nirguna tradition of medieval Bhakti-literature. Known for his rebellious views on caste and untouchability."
  },
  {
    "name": "Kabeer Athar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kabeer-athar",
    "location": "Rahim Yar Khan",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kabir Ahmad Jaisi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kabir-ahmad-jaisi",
    "location": "Aligarh",
    "active_years": "1934 -2013",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kabir Ajmal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kabir-ajmal",
    "location": "Banaras",
    "active_years": "1967 -2020",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kafeel Aazar Amrohvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kafeel-aazar-amrohvi",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1940",
    "description": "Poet and lyricist. Famous for his nazm \"baat niklegi to phir door talak jayegi\" sung by Jagjit Singh."
  },
  {
    "name": "Kafeel Anwar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kafeel-anwar",
    "location": "Arrah",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kahkashaan Malik",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kahkashaan-malik",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1934",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kahkashan Tabassum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kahkashan-tabassum",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1960",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kahkeshan Parveen",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kahkeshan-parveen",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": "1960",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kaif Ahmed Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-ahmed-siddiqui",
    "location": "Sitapur",
    "active_years": "1943 -1986",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kaif Ansari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-ansari",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kaif Azimabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-azimabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1937",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kaif Bhopali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-bhopali",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1917 -1991",
    "description": "Popular poet and lyricist famous for his lyrics in film Paakeeza."
  },
  {
    "name": "Kaif Ikrami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-ikrami",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kaif Moradaabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-moradaabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1907 -1976",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kaif Uddin Khan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaif-uddin-khan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "2000",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Kaifi Azmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaifi-azmi",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1918 -2002",
    "description": "One of prominent progressive poets with popular appeal. Also film lyricist famous for his lyrics in films like Heer Ranjha, Kaghaz ke Phool etc."
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaifi-bilgrami",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaifi Chirayyakoti",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaifi-chirayyakoti",
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    "active_years": "1890 -1956",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaifi Hyderabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaifi-hyderabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1880 -1920",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaifi Kakorvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kaifi-kakorvi",
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    "active_years": "1852 -1928",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Kaifi Sanbhali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaifi-sanbhali",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Kaifi Wijdani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaifi-wijdani",
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    "active_years": "1932",
    "description": "Well-known poet / Father of prominent post-modern poet Shariq Kaifi"
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kailash-guru-swami",
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    "active_years": "1948",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kailash Jha Kinkar",
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    "location": "Begusarai",
    "active_years": "1962 -2020",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kailash Mahir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kailash-mahir",
    "location": "Moradabad",
    "active_years": "1928",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kailash Sengar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kailash-sengar",
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    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kainaat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kainaat",
    "location": "Barabanki",
    "active_years": "1992",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kainat Bashir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kainat-bashir",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kalam Haidari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kalam-haidari",
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    "active_years": "1930 -1994",
    "description": "Noted progressive critic, story writer and journalist; also edited an important literary journal \"Aahung\"."
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kalb-e-husain-nadir",
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    "active_years": "1805 -1878",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaleem Aajiz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-aajiz",
    "location": "Patna",
    "active_years": "1926 -2015",
    "description": "Prominent contemporary Indian poet of classical tone."
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    "name": "Kaleem Ahmadabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-ahmadabadi",
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    "active_years": "-1966",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaleem Chughtai",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-chughtai",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1954",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaleem Haider Sharar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-haider-sharar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Kaleem Jazil",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-jazil",
    "location": "Maunath Bhanjan",
    "active_years": "1992",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-khan",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1969",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaleem Qaisar Balrampuri",
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    "active_years": "1958",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-rahber",
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    "active_years": "1976",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaleem Sahasrami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kaleem-sahasrami",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1930",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaleem Saronji",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/kaleem-saronji",
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    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaleem Usmani",
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    "active_years": "1928 -2000",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Kaleem Yazdani",
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    "description": null
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/kalicharan-singh",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/laila-khwaja-bano",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Laiq Aajiz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/laiq-aajiz",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Laiq Akbar sahaab",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/laiq-akbar-sahaab",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/laiq-siddiqi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lais-quraishi",
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    "description": null
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1887 -1967",
    "description": null
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lal Chand Rangeen Aurangabadi",
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    "active_years": "-1780",
    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1896 -1968",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lala Jai Kishan das Bejan Aurangabadi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lala Kanji Mal Saba",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lala-kanji-mal-saba",
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    "active_years": "1792",
    "description": null
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    "active_years": "1810 -1889",
    "description": "Contemporary of Mirza Ghalib, famous for many of his oft-quoted shers."
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lala-mauji-ram-mauji",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1789",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lala Piyare Lal",
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    "active_years": "1844/1850 -1874",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lala Rakha Ram Barq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lala-rakha-ram-barq",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lala Tika Ram",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lala-tika-ram",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lalan Chaudhary",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lalan-chaudhary",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1923",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/lalithambika-antharjanam",
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    "active_years": "1909 -1987",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lankesh-gautam",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "2003",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lata Haya",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lata-haya",
    "location": "Mumbai",
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateef-adeebi",
    "location": "Pune",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateef-ahmad-subhani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1950",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/lateef-farooqi",
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    "active_years": "1840 -1907",
    "description": null
  },
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    "name": "Lateef Hazin",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateef-hazin",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lateef Khan Mahfooz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateef-khan-mahfooz",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lateef Nazi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/lateef-nazi",
    "location": "Chennai",
    "active_years": "1930",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Lateef Saani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateef-saani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateef-sahil",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lateefunnisa Lateef",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lateefunnisa-lateef",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Latif Shah Shahid",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/latif-shah-shahid",
    "location": "Nowshera",
    "active_years": "1968",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Laxman Sharma Vahid",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/laxman-sharma-vahid",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1942",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Laxmi Narayan Farigh",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/laxmi-narayan-farigh",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Laxmi Narayan Shafiq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/laxmi-narayan-shafiq",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1771 -1808",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/leo-tolstoy",
    "location": "Russia",
    "active_years": "1828 -1910",
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/leonard-cohen",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1934 -2016",
    "description": "Canadian poet, singer-songwriter, and novelist."
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  {
    "name": "Li Bai",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/li-bai",
    "location": "China",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty, renowned for his vivid imagery, profound emotion, and his status as one of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup."
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/liaqat-jafri",
    "location": "Jammu",
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    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Liyaqat Ali Aasim",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/liyaqat-ali-aasim",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1951 -2019",
    "description": "Prominent Pakistani poet and linguist"
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/liyaqat-ali-azim",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lokesh-kumar-singh",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lokesh-tripathi",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1980",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/louise-gl-ck",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1943 -2023",
    "description": "Celebrated American poet and Nobel Laureate. Known for her thematically profound poetry that interrogates themes of personal trauma, familial dynamics, and the human relationship with nature."
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    "name": "Lubna Ghazal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/lubna-ghazal",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Lubna Safdar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lubna-safdar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lucky-farooqi-hasrat",
    "location": "Muzaffarnagar",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lutfunnisa-imtiyaz",
    "location": "Aurangabad",
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    "description": null
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    "name": "Lutf-ur-rahman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/lutf-ur-rahman",
    "location": "Patna",
    "active_years": "1941",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-i-zaahir",
    "location": "Jodhpur",
    "active_years": "1972",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-k-mahtab",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-kothiyavi-rahi",
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    "active_years": "1935 -2005",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-mobeen",
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    "description": "Noted story writer, known for his stories on sensitive social issues."
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    "name": "M R Qasmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-r-qasmi",
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    "description": null
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    "name": "M. A. Qadeer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-a-qadeer",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-a-shamsi",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-gumnam",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-i-sajid-1",
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    "active_years": "1946",
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-j-khalid",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-k-asar",
    "location": "Kolkata",
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-mukundan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1942",
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-n-narhari",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-nasrullah-nasr",
    "location": "Howrah",
    "active_years": "1957",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-p-narayana-pillai",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1939 -1998",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "M. S. Naz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/m-s-naz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "M. S. Rahi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-s-rahi",
    "location": "Gaya",
    "active_years": "1941",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "M. Usman Shakir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/m-usman-shakir",
    "location": "Austria",
    "active_years": "1980",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "M.S Mahawar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ms-mahawar",
    "location": "Rajasthan",
    "active_years": "1991",
    "description": null
  },
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/maaham-shah",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1997",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Maatam Fazl Mohammad",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/maatam-fazl-mohammad",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1815 -1897",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Maaz Aiz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/maaz-aiz",
    "location": "Kolhapur",
    "active_years": "1997",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Machis Lakhnavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/machis-lakhnavi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1918 -1970",
    "description": null
  },
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    "name": "Oscar Wilde",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/oscar-wilde",
    "location": "Paris",
    "active_years": "1854 -1900",
    "description": "Irish poet, Fiction Writer and playwright"
  },
  {
    "name": "Owais Ahmad Dauran",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/owais-ahmad-dauran",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "active_years": "1938",
    "description": "Prominent progressive poet known for his biograpghy 'Meri Kahani' and nazm 'ik bevafa ke naam'"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ozair Rahman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ozair-rahman",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1949",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Ozair Yusuf",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/ozair-yusuf",
    "location": "Punjab",
    "active_years": "1989",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "P P Srivastava Rind",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/p-p-srivastava-rind",
    "location": "Noida",
    "active_years": "1950",
    "description": "Well-known poet/Living in Noida"
  },
  {
    "name": "P. C. Kuttikrishnan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/p-c-kuttikrishnan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1915 -1979",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "P. Keshav Dev",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/p-keshav-dev",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pablo Neruda",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/pablo-neruda",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1904 -1973",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pagal Adilabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pagal-adilabadi",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1941 -2007",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Paigham Aafaqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/paigham-aafaqi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1956 -2016",
    "description": "Prominent post-modernist fiction writer and poet; known well for his novel Paleeta."
  },
  {
    "name": "Paikan Chandpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/paikan-chandpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Paikar Jafari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/paikar-jafari",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Paikar Yazdani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/paikar-yazdani",
    "location": "Saharanpur",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pakiza Beg",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pakiza-beg",
    "location": "England",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pallav Mishra",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pallav-mishra",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1998",
    "description": "Young Urdu Poet"
  },
  {
    "name": "Pallavi Mishra",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pallavi-mishra",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Aks Lucknowi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-aks-lucknowi",
    "location": "Australia",
    "active_years": "1964",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Chandr Bhan Barahman",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-chandr-bhan-barahman",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1574 -1662",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Daya Shankar Naseem Lakhnawi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-daya-shankar-naseem-lakhnawi",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1811 -1845",
    "description": "One of the most celebrated 19th century Lucknow poets, author of the renowned masnavi gulzaar-e-naseem"
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Jagmohan Nath Raina Shauq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-jagmohan-nath-raina-shauq",
    "location": "Shahjahanpur",
    "active_years": "1863",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Jawahar Nath Saqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-jawahar-nath-saqi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1864 -1916",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Tribhuvannath Zutshi Zar Dehlvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-tribhuvannath-zutshi-zar-dehlvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1956",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pandit Vidya Rattan Asi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pandit-vidya-rattan-asi",
    "location": "Jammu",
    "active_years": "1938 -2019",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pankaj Sarhadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pankaj-sarhadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pankaj Subeer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pankaj-subeer",
    "location": "Madhya Pradesh",
    "active_years": "1975",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Panna Lal Noor",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/panna-lal-noor",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Panna Lal Patel",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/panna-lal-patel",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Paras Mazari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/paras-mazari",
    "location": "Bahawalpur",
    "active_years": "1985",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Paraveen Rai",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/paraveen-rai",
    "location": "Ghazipur",
    "active_years": "1995",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pardeep Sahil",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pardeep-sahil",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Pareshan Lakhnavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/pareshan-lakhnavi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parkash Fikri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parkash-fikri",
    "location": "Ranchi",
    "active_years": "1931 -2008",
    "description": "Zahirul Haq alias Prakash Fikri, was a modernist Urdu poet famous for his collections of poetry such as; Safar Sitara and Ek Zara Si Barish."
  },
  {
    "name": "Parkash Nath Parvez",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parkash-nath-parvez",
    "location": "Aligarh",
    "active_years": "1930",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parmod Lal Yakta",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/parmod-lal-yakta",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parsa Kausari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parsa-kausari",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Partav Rohila",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/partav-rohila",
    "location": "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa",
    "active_years": "1932 -2016",
    "description": "Poet, Researcher and Translator/Known for Urdu translation of Ghalib’s Persian letters."
  },
  {
    "name": "Parul Singh Noor",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parul-singh-noor",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1989",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Atif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/parveen-atif",
    "location": "Lahore",
    "active_years": "1935 -2018",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Fana Syed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-fana-syed",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1936 -2010",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Kaif",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-kaif-1",
    "location": "Bhopal",
    "active_years": "1956",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Kumar Ashk",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-kumar-ashk",
    "location": "Pathankot",
    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Mirza",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-mirza",
    "location": "London",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Sajal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-sajal",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Shaghaf",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-shaghaf",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1980",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Shakir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-shakir",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1952 -1994",
    "description": "One of the most popular woman poets who gave expression to feelings and experiences specific to women."
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Sultana Saba",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-sultana-saba",
    "location": "Canada",
    "active_years": "1959",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Tahir",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-tahir",
    "location": "Rawalpindi",
    "active_years": "1958",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parveen Umm-e-Mushtaq",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parveen-umm-e-mushtaq",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1866",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parvez Ahmad Parvez",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parvez-ahmad-parvez",
    "location": "Jamshedpur",
    "active_years": "1968",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parvez akhtar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parvez-akhtar",
    "location": "Bijnor",
    "active_years": "1966",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parvez Anjum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/parvez-anjum",
    "location": "Kolkata",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parvez Ashrafi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/parvez-ashrafi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1955",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parvez Baghi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parvez-baghi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Parvez Bazmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/parvez-bazmi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qabil Ajmeri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qabil-ajmeri",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1931 -1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qabil Dehlvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qabil-dehlvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadeemi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadeemi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadeer Ayaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadeer-ayaz",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadeer Lakhnavi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadeer-lakhnavi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1898 -1969",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadeer Piyarepuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qadeer-piyarepuri",
    "location": "Bahraich",
    "active_years": "1914 -1968",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadir Khan Sartaj",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadir-khan-sartaj",
    "location": "England",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadir Siddiqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadir-siddiqi",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1923",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadr Aurangabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadr-aurangabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1785",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadr Bilgrami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadr-bilgrami",
    "location": "Lucknow",
    "active_years": "1933 -1884",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qadr Oraizi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qadr-oraizi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": "A poet of classical temper from Hyderabad, known for his Rubais"
  },
  {
    "name": "Qais Jalandhari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qais-jalandhari",
    "location": "Jalandhar",
    "active_years": "1904 -1994",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qais Kakorvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qais-kakorvi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qais Rampuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qais-rampuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "-1974",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Abbas",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-abbas",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Afghani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-afghani",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Amravatwi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-amravatwi",
    "location": "Akola",
    "active_years": "1894 -1966",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Azeez",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qaisar-azeez",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1962",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Haideri Dehlvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-haideri-dehlvi",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1928 -1992",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar hayat",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-hayat",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Nizami",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-nizami",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Qalandar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-qalandar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Shameem",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-shameem",
    "location": "West Bengal",
    "active_years": "1936 -2021",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Siddiqi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-siddiqi",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "active_years": "1937 -2018",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Tamkeen",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qaisar-tamkeen",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1938",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Usmani",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-usmani",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1919 -2000",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Zahidi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qaisar-zahidi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisar Ziya Qaisar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisar-ziya-qaisar",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaisarul Jafri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaisarul-jafri",
    "location": "Mumbai",
    "active_years": "1926 -2005",
    "description": "Famous for his ghazal \"Divaron se mil kar rona achcha lagta hai\"."
  },
  {
    "name": "Qalaq Merathi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qalaq-merathi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1832/3 -1880",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qaleel Jhansvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qaleel-jhansvi",
    "location": "Gurgaon",
    "active_years": "1951",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Aasi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-aasi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1987",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Abbas Qamar",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-abbas-qamar",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "active_years": "1993",
    "description": "Prominent among upcoming generation of urdu poets."
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Ahsan",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qamar-ahsan",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1943",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Anjum",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qamar-anjum",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1971",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Badarpuri",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-badarpuri",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Badayuni",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-badayuni",
    "location": "Badayun",
    "active_years": "1876 -1941",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Gwaliari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qamar-gwaliari",
    "location": "Gwalior",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Hashmi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-hashmi",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1924 -1993",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Hilali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/qamar-hilali",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Iqbal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-iqbal",
    "location": "Aurangabad",
    "active_years": "1944 -1988",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Jahan Naseer",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-jahan-naseer",
    "location": "Allahabd",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Jalalabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-jalalabadi",
    "location": "Punjab",
    "active_years": "1917 -2003",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Jalalvi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-jalalvi",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1887 -1968",
    "description": "Famous indian poet who migrated to Pakistan. He earned polularity with many of his oft-quoted shers."
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Jameel",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-jameel",
    "location": "Karachi",
    "active_years": "1927 -2000",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Javed",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-javed",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Malal",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-malal",
    "location": "Balochistan",
    "active_years": "1992",
    "description": null
  },
  {
    "name": "Qamar Moradabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/qamar-moradabadi",
    "location": null,
    "active_years": "1910 -1987",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saadullah-kaleem",
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    "active_years": "-2004",
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    "active_years": "1933",
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    "active_years": "1955",
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-jayasi",
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    "active_years": null,
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-naqvi",
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    "active_years": "1940",
    "description": null
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  {
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-nusrat",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/saba-tabish",
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/sabahat-firdaus",
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    "description": null
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    "active_years": null,
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  {
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    "active_years": null,
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  {
    "name": "Sabiha Nasreen",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/sabiha-nasreen",
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    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Sabiha Saba",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/sabiha-saba-1",
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    "active_years": "1950",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Sabiha Saba",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/sabiha-saba",
    "location": "New York",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Sabiha Sadaf",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/sabiha-sadaf",
    "location": "Raisen",
    "active_years": "1972",
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "Sabiha Sumbul",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/sabiha-sumbul",
    "location": "Aligarh",
    "active_years": null,
    "description": null
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  {
    "name": "T N Raaz",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/t-n-raaz",
    "location": "Panchkula",
    "active_years": "1935",
    "description": "Prominent Poet, known for his humorous & satirical poems based on Ghalib’s ‘Zameen’"
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  {
    "name": "Taashshuq Lakhnavi",
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    "description": null
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    "name": "Tabish Siddiqui",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/tabish-siddiqui",
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    "description": null
  },
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/tahir-faraz",
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    "active_years": "1952",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umair-manzar",
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    "active_years": "1974",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umair-najmi",
    "location": "Rahim Yar Khan",
    "active_years": "1986",
    "description": "Prominent young poet"
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    "name": "Umang Bali",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umang-bali",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "active_years": "2001",
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    "name": "Umar Ansari",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umar-ansari",
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    "active_years": "1912 -2005",
    "description": null
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    "name": "Umar Aurangabadi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umar-aurangabadi",
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umar-farhat",
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    "active_years": "1986",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umar-farooq",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/umar-khaleeq-azmi",
    "location": "Hyderabad",
    "active_years": "1993",
    "description": null
  },
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    "name": "Umar Quraishi",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/authors/umar-quraishi",
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    "active_years": "1924 -2010",
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    "active_years": "1990",
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    "active_years": null,
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    "active_years": "1954",
    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/usha-jha",
    "location": "Dehradun",
    "active_years": "1968",
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    "name": "V.C. Ray",
    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/vc-ray",
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    "active_years": "1941",
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/vafa-barahi",
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    "description": null
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    "href": "https://www.rekhta.org/poets/vafa-malikpuri",
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    "active_years": "1923 -2003",
    "description": "Editor of the journal 'Subh-e-Nau'"
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    "name": "Vahshi Kanpuri",
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