Celebrating The Best Of Urdu Poetry by Khushwant Singh is a collection Urdu poetry. The book contains poems written by both famous and relatively unknown poets from over the past 200 years. In one of the poems in this book, Rashid asks Allah for a small gift. If he writes his will in Urdu, he wants his son to be able to read it. The readers who love Urdu verses and those who are seeking an introduction to Urdu poetry may find this collection interesting.
Khushwant Singh, born on February 2, 1915, is a famous Indian novelist and journalist. Some of his popular books include The Company of Women, Train to Pakistan, Absolute Khushwant: The Low-Down on Life, Death And Most Things In-Between. He has been the founder-editor of Yojna, and the editor of The National Herald, The Illustrated Weekly of India, and Hindustan Times. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award in India from the Indian government. Kamna Prasad is an Urdu activist and film maker in India. She has initiated many activities over the past two decades for the cause of Urdu and the common syncretic culture of India.
