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

Doha:  The AMU Alumni Association Qatar (AMUAAQ) hosted a memorable International Book Launch and Poetry Evening to honor the literary legacy of the late Urdu poet Mr. Masroor Ahmad Masroor of Maudaha ...

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

Eminent critic and writer Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered a lecture at the Arts Council of Pakistan in Karachi on May 30, 2025, ...

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 ...