India, March 21 -- World Poetry Day celebrated on March 21 every year is dedicated to one of the oldest forms of human expression. Speaking to us on the occasion, celebrated poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter,and film director, Gulzar says poetry will always be relevant. He says, "Poetry in India has always been bound with culture and represented the social values and difficulties of that period. Be it Rabindranath Tagore, Amrita Pritam, Faiz saab (Faiz Ahmad Faiz), they wrote poems about war, partition, separation from loved ones, themes that are still relevant to the contemporary world." He quotes Amrita Pritam's famous poem Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah a heartrending poem written during the riot-torn days that followed the partition of the...