Urdu poetry's shape-shifter
Rahat Indori, poet of attitude, is finding new ground in young hearts, swaying mushairas, selling books and leaving a footprint in Bollywood
Urdu poetry is often equated with nostalgia for a romanticised past. How popular is it today, though? The question has several possible answers. One way to sample the data is to look at the Twitter following of some popular poets. Rahat Indori has over 400,000. Not bad for a 70-year-old former Urdu professor and painter from Indore, unfamiliar with the virtual world.
There is no dearth of people who call him the most popular Urdu poet today. For mushaira
