Zaban-e-Urdu hai jiska naam, Woh Hindustan ki jaan hai.” The language called Urdu is the life of Hindustan. Prologue: A ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans ...

Dekhna taqreer ki lazzat ke jo uss ne kahaMein ne ye jana ko goya ye bhi mere dil mein heGhalibDr Azra Raza has over the last several years won widespread acclaim and popularity in the US as an ...

Discovering open mic poetry About fifteen years ago, I read a short poem in public at an event hosted by Mahendra Kutare, ...

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

The English language bundles many different shades of love under the umbrella term of love. Urdu has a rich vocabulary, cobbled from its mother languages, for the different emotional colours of love.

Humorous and satirical poetry is also plentiful in Urdu. However, the most popular and important form of poetry is undoubtedly the ghazal. The ghazal is a love poem written in stanzas, consisting of ...

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

Given the metaphysical enormity of the texture of the poems, the book is doubtless a valuable addition to the extant repository of prose poetry in Urdu.

This book is Jalil’s labour of love. It is a khazana, a treasury, of Urdu shayari that provides succour in our dark time. Over the course of 80 short essays, drawing on her deep love and ...

Kharel also loves basketball and Urdu poetry. Guided by his mentor Syed Akbar Hyder, an associate professor of Asian Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, he is a fluent ...

Home to festivals hosted in appreciation of films and books, Delhi also celebrates the love of poetry through Jashn-e-Rekhta, the world’s largest Urdu literature festival.