Deccan Hindi, Urdu Poetry and Amir Khusro: Separating the Popular Media Notions with the Actualities

Abstract

Popular Media has been showcasing the legend of Amir Khusro in a very limited dimension, reducing the personality of the millennium to nothing more than just a 'shayar' with sporadic reference in the context of medival history. Very little has been written about his writing and majority of the media has conveniently ignored him with the only contribution coming from print media (newspapers) and majority books (literature). This paper tries to expand on the writings of Amir Khusro and throws light on the deeper personality and writings of Amir Khurso that would help in separating the myths from the actualities.