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

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar, the oldest literary organisation in Qatar (established in 1959), and devoted to the promotion of the Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the second poetry collection ...

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

The story of the Filose family in India begins with founder Michael Filose who came from Naples to Calcutta in 1770 AD and ...

IT is an oft-repeated lament that the glory days of the Persian language in the Indo-Pak subcontinent were over ...

The Government College Ludhiana, from where Sahir was rusticated in British times for his revolutionary poetry, now remembers ...

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

The Maharashtra government has conferred its esteemed Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Puraskar for 2021 and 2022 upon Farhan Hanif Warsi, sub-editor of Mumbai Urdu News, recognising his exceptional ...

Delhi-NCR's misty sunsets coupled with its colourful winged visitors in rain-soaked poetry, are compelling walk curators to ...

Ali’s adaptation of Mirza Hadi Ruswa’s historical fiction novel Umrao Jaan Adaa, written along with Javed Siddiqui and Shama ...

In a recent statement reflecting on Israel’s strikes on Iran, Pakistani poet and scholar Ali Kumail Qazalbash highlighted the ...