By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry. Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms. The masnavi, for example, is a long ...

Urdu poetry is well renowned for its rich past, enormous beauty, and complexity in expressions. For those willing to start to ...

ZE, khe and sheen are in fact three letters of Urdu alphabet that denote the sounds z, kh and sh. These are the initials for ...

Eminent Urdu writer Shamim Tariq on Wednesday said that Firaq Gorakhpuri is the Mir of modern Urdu poetry. Tariq was speaking at the opening session of the two-day national seminar “Firaq ...

Shiv Kishan Bissa, popularly known as Sheen Kaaf Nizam, a celebrated Urdu poet and literary scholar from Jodhpur, has been awar ...