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I am the best Urdu poet on either side of the border, says Bashir Badr [India]:
Ludhiana, October 10: Modesty is not for a man like Bashir Badr who claims he is the best Urdu poet, both in India and Pakistan. And why not. For here is the man who has over 18,000 couplets to his name and countless Urdu ghazals.

Some of his couplets, like Dushmani jam ker karo, per itne gunjaish rahe, jab kabhi hum dost ho jaayen, to sharminda na ho find their place as the historical photo caption under the picture of Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto post the 1971 Indo-Pak war settlement, or others like Koi haath bhee na milayega jo gale miloge tapaak se, yeh naye mizaaz ka shehar hai zara faasle se mila karo are mouthed by the likes of Sushmita Sen in her interviews. [...]

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