Intikhab-e-Kalam: Ismail Meeruthi

Description

This selection of Ismail Meeruthi’s poems, written primarily for school children, has been a perennial favourite. The poems range from nursery rhymes to didactic, but charming poems for students of primary level classes. The school textbooks for Urdu which Ismail Meeruthi designed grew outmoded, but the poems themselves have survived because of their simplicity, their charm, and their freshness, which had a different aspect from the stylized and Persianised poetry patronized by the grown-ups.

Author Biography

Dr. Rauf Parekh has an MA and PhD from the University of Karachi. He is a critic of Urdu Literature and regularly contributes to the daily Dawn, Karachi. He is a former Chief Editor of the Urdu Dictionary Board and is presently teaching at the Department of Urdu, University of Karachi. He is the compiler of the first slang Urdu dictionary and Chief Editor of the Oxford Urdu – English Dictionary.