That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta ...

Urdu poetry still inspires people. While finding a sher or shayar is an issue, some platforms are giving a renewed push to a ...

Patna: Government Urdu Library on Thursday hosted an elegant awards ceremony to recognise outstanding contributions to Urdu literature, poetry and jou.

Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms. The masnavi, for example, is a long narrative romantic poem like The Roman de la Rose of medieval Europe. A marsia is an elegiac poem that grieves over the death ...

Malaal means regret, a soft ache that lives in silence, in the pause between what was and what could’ve been. It is not ...

Urdu poetry is referencing ghosting and mobile phones. It’s getting quoted in Pakistani rap. Rekhta, a decade-old archive for poetry and literature in the language, has close 925K followers on ...

Urdu poetry readings and open-mic evenings are blossoming across Hyderabad — in cafés, public auditoriums, and heritage locations like the Qutb Shahi Tombs and Raja Bhagwandas Garden Pavilion.

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 ...

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 ...