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1 Urdu ashaar / shayari (shers, couplets) by

Manish Shukla

1971- Present,

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)

1 / 1: Manish Shukla

baat karne kaa haseen taur-tareeqa seekha

ham ne urdu ke bahaane se

saleeka seekha

we learned a beautiful way

of speaking with grace

we learned refinements

on the pretext of urdu

Manish Shukla (1)

beautiful

taur (m) (2)

manner, fashion

tareeqa (m) (2)

way, method, manner

learned

bahaane (m) (4)

excuses / to shed

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