In a surprising twist, West Bengal's Inspector General of Police, Murlidhar Sharma, has penned the lyrics for a Hindi item ...

Irshad Khan ‘Sikandar’, poet, lyricist, writer and playwright who enthralled both enthusiasts and connoisseurs alike, passed ...

Retailer Poetry has issued a public apology after being accused of copying jewellery designs by Cape Town designer Anna Rosholt. Following a previous incident at the beginning of the year, Poetry was ...

aesthetically designed couplets and spoken-word performances have made poetry more accessible. Many young poets have gained recognition through these platforms, as their works reach audiences who may ...

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported ... The long poem ‘Kahani ek shaher ki’ seems to have been designed as an epic (akin to ‘shaher ashob’ in Urdu) comprising 17 cantos ...

Apart from his share of highs and lows, Rajiv will also be remembered for lacing his press conferences with Urdu couplets to make his point. “Kar na sakein ikraar toh koi baat nahi, meri wafa ka ...

Imagine standing face-to-face with Mirza Ghalib, the legendary Urdu poet ... “We've designed an experience that connects people to the beauty of the language through poetry and music in a ...

Drawing on the traditions of Arabic and Persian poetry, the classical writers of the Urdu ghazal frequently employed interconnected metaphorical systems. Iqbal’s response to this garden often ...

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 ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes ... she uses the fragments of old poetry to “shore against my ruins”.

The 76th death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, was commemorated at the National Press Club in Dhaka with Urdu songs and poetry on Wednesday. Speakers on the ...

“Natural Shayari, as a movement, sought to redeem Urdu poetry from the abstract exercise of metaphysical ... which he argued “justified the world as a rule-based and beneficent order designed, created ...