If someone mentioned"Urdu" in a word association exercise, the next word to be uttered in all likelihood would be"shayari". But, as much as the lyrical language has been the preferred medium of the romantics and the disillusioned, it has also been the home ground of satirists, who have used wordplay to launch scathing, sometimes veiled, attacks on society and the establishment, or spun humorous stories on the world around them.

Priyanka Setia and Nachiket Devasthali