What you'll find here
Shayari is Urdu and Hindi verse, usually a sher: a couplet of two lines that sets up a feeling in the first line and turns it in the second. It's how a lot of people in India say the thing a plain sentence can't, in a WhatsApp status, an Instagram caption or a late-night text. This section collects it by feeling: love, sadness, friendship and life.
Every couplet here is original. We don't reproduce Ghalib, Mir, Faiz or other famous poets, partly because the twentieth-century poets are still in copyright and partly because their verse is already on thousands of pages. What you'll find instead is new verse in the traditional two-line form, written to be sent.
Devanagari, with the line break kept
The couplets are set in Devanagari, with the break between the two lines kept when you copy one, because a sher pasted as one continuous line stops reading as a couplet. Check that the break survived after you paste, especially in Instagram's caption box, which is where it most often goes wrong.
Sending shayari well
Match the verse to the moment: a love couplet for an anniversary card, a sad one for the status you post after a hard week, a dosti couplet for the friend you haven't called in a while. If you want it as a picture, the quote maker turns any couplet into an image sized for a WhatsApp status or an Instagram post.