About the Book: The Eternal Spring: Sarchashma-e-abadi
Urdu poetry is a universe of lustrous pictures that presents in words of varying
hue, a delicacy of thought, and depth of meaning. Every word, every simile and
metaphor bears within itself a whole world of meaning, and thus is the virtue of
a great language that represents a celebrated civilisation. This is the kind of
poetry that can be rendered easily into English without hurting its poetic
quality because it is free of the unnecessary ornamentation common to all
eastern poetry. Like most Indians of the current age, Idrak Bhatty too has been
nurtured in both eastern and western