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The Progressive Movement certainly gave a new life and popular consciousness to Urdu literature, but where literature turned into mere sloganeering, its creative and aesthetic values became weak.

— Khaleel-Ur-Rehman Azmi

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Source: Urdu Mein Taraqqi Pasand Adabi Tahreek (The Progressive Literary Movement in Urdu), Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind), New Delhi, 1985, p. 18
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