Nightingale of Kashmir.
Her poetry was unconventional inasmuch as she poured out her grief through her lyrics in the language of the common man. Kashmir is not only a land of beautiful scenery and landscape, but it has also been a literary fertile land since ancient times. Kashmir was considered to be the abode of goddess Saraswati. In the overwhelmingly beautiful setting, there flourished a culture that led to the learning of humanities, literature, philosophy, astrology, astronomy, religion, medicine, history, law, polity, et al. Whereas ancient Kashmir produced a galaxy of literary and philosopher luminaries like Abhinav Gupta, Kshemendra, Kalhan, etc. In the medieval Kashmir there emerged another galaxy of poets like Lalleshwari, Parmanand, Mahmud Ghani, Arnimal, Krishna Joo Razdan, Mahjoor, Maqbool Shah Kralawari, Rasool Mir, Habba Khatoon etc, who enriched the Kashmiri literature by their spiritual poetry and romantic lyrics. Habba Khatoon was one of the best and unique poets in Kashmiri literature in...