Mr Athar and Mr Inayat took the opportunity to praise Dr Syed Azhar Ali Zaidi and late Saleem Jafri who had introduced Mazahiya (humourous ... in the popularity of poetry and short stories ...

director-in-charge of women’s studies and associate professor at Hyderabad’s Maulana Azad National Urdu University, the humour poetry world remains male-dominated: “Mazahiya gatherings ...