Mainstream WeeklyIn the late nineteenth and early 20th century when Urdu poetry was at its zenith there was a heated debate among the reigning Urdu poets from the Lucknow school as against the poets of say Western India or Hyderabad Deccan on the metre and rhyme as against the content of the poem composed by a poet if he or she did not belong to the Lucknow school.
The Lucknow school for instance looked down upon even a great poet like Iqbal citing the same metre and rhyme shortcomings in their perception in certain widely appreciated poems of Iqbal. As a matter of fact, this wasn