There used to be people who simply mastered so many things at the same time that we now find it hard to believe Ameer Meenai was a master poet of Urdu and Persian but he was also a lexicographer ...

Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in his blog, Obama showed off his intellectual flair by evoking a standard of Pakistani culture in a recent interview with Dawn, a ...

“ Till the end you will see that the culture, syntax and the mood in Urdu, the way poetry is approached has a deep connection with Arabic , Farsi and Turkish.” Amjad said.

Parveen Shakir is the only female poet I really know and like,” she said, adding, “To write you must read.” The book was awarded the best book of Urdu poetry for 2013 by the Bihar Urdu Academy.

I found vast amounts of poetry written by Hindu and Sikh poets on Eid and Milad-un Nabi as also large numbers of soz, marsiya, naat, manqabad on subjects culled specifically from Prophet Muhammad ...

GUL-I-RA’ANA (1923) and She’ar-ul-Hind (1925) are two histories of Urdu poetry penned in the first quarter of the 20th century and are often discussed, even a century after they first appeared.