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    Tarahi Mushaira is where a misra is given and the poets have to write whole ghazal using that misra and the behar ( rythmic meter) of the misra. For more information about identifying behars see the bottom of this page. Please read all the information given below very carefully, before you submit any work. Submissions not following the rules will not be considered by the judges.
Rules:
To submit your entry :
you have to first register in the urdustan's messageboard; then post your shaayri in the messageboard's mushaira forum


Past Results
Month & the misra
 

June 2002 :
May 2002

April 2002 : based on picture of Gujrat violence
March 2002
February 2002

January 2002 : based on a pic

August 1999  :

Zinda hai har ik cheez koshish-e-na tamaam se

September 1999 :

itna na yaad aa ke tujhe bhool jaayeN ham

Ocotober 1999:

muddat hui hai yaar ko mahmaaN kiye hue

November 1999 :

lamha lamha wasl ka ghabra raha hai

March 2000 :
The competition was on a picture.

April 2000 :
The lafz was "aatish"
may 2000 :

kissi ka yooN to hua kaun umar bhar phir bhi

june2000 :
The lafz was "maut"
sept 2000 :
The lafz was "urdu"
oct 2000 :

maiN un se kah raha hooN mujhe yaad kijiye

Feb. 2001 :
On a picture from the Gujrat earthquake.

March 2001 :

pathar ki moortoN meN samjha hai tu khuda hai

April 2001 :

suna hai log usse aankh bhar kyedekhte haiN

May 2001:
On a picture

June 2001 :
lafz "gard' 

October 2001 :

hota hai shab-o-roz tamasha mere aage

November 2001:
lafz "ittefaq" 
 
 


Some helpful links and articles for poetry writing in Urdu
everything about shayari : a must read for all budding shayars
tarz-e-kalaam : by Steve Almas
defination of ghazal : by Abhay Avachat
and some more
behar( metre)  in urdu : by Amit Trivedi
kinds of behar : Amit Trivedi
Types of urdu poems : by Nita
all the metres in urdu poetry : who else? Amit Trivedi