Valentine's Day special: Rekhti, Urdu odes to lesbian love that were suppressed in Awadh | Research News

The poets were male, but both the speaker and the subject were female. It reflected a world inhabited by women but more importantly, though, it gave voice to love and desire within the world of women.

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