Progressive Criticism Gives Urdu Criticism a New Perspective and New Direction Some progressive critics have been vocal in their approach to this approach. This one-sidedness of criticism was the wrong result of the interpretation of progressive criticism, but soon a circle of progressive critics emerged who, with a correct understanding of Marxist thought, led progressive critics out of reactionary thinking, including Dr. Muhammad Ali. Siddiqui, Dr. Mohammad Hassan, Dr. Qamar Raees and Mohammad Aqeel Rizvi are the representative critics who have given a progressive interpretation to progressive criticism in the context of new literary movements, modernity, post-modernity and literary theory with new contexts and theoretical and practical discussions