Urdu poets often write their verses not in a direct... Update Consent. Mon ... and it contains the name or pseudonym (called takhallus)of the poet. Thus, in the above poem, the poet’s name, Faiz ...

His poetry has been translated into numerous languages including Hindi, Gujarati, English, Russian and Chinese ...

You name it, I can cook it. And so I have a great affinity for Pakistani culture and the great Urdu poets.’ ‘You read Urdu poetry?’ ‘Absolutely.

Ghalib was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen names of Ghalib (means "dominant") and Asad (means "lion"). Most notably ...

In youth, such verses felt like exquisite escapes from the tyranny of love. But as twilight descends and age gently enters the mind’s private corridors, memory loss reveals its true face — not poetic, ...

Her male-sounding name notwithstanding, British writer George Eliot (1819-1880) was a woman. Born Mary Ann Evans, she was a novelist, poet, translator and one of the leading litterateurs of the ...

It is written from right to left like Arabic and Persian and in the same script. By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry.

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M. Salim ur ...

While many readers of Urdu poetry are familiar with the archetypal romance between the bulbul (nightingale) and the gul (rose or flower), the image of trees in this metaphorical garden has also ...

The twenty-fourth death anniversary of Urdu poet Qateel Shifai is being observed today. Qateel Shifai was born on 24th December 1919 in Haripur. His real name was Muhammad Aurangzeb but he adopted ...