The Missing Prayer is a tell-tale rhythmic recital of the losses, the voids, the gaps and the simplest of the tiny things ...

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

Her recent convocation address at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver was much more than a cancer-researcher's speech - it ...

Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a poet shaped by early heartbreak and political disillusionment, blended romance and revolution in his work.

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 ...

Muzaffar Ali’s version featuring Rekha in the title role, begins with little Ameeran in Faizabad abducted to Lucknow to be moulded and shaped into a perfect tawaif, and ends with Umrao grown from the ...

Shayari for Boyfriend (BF) - Looking for love, romantic, funny & cute shayari for him? Here's the list of love shayari in english for boyfriend that you can share with your boyfriend to make him feel ...

The fight to keep Punjabi alive in Pakistan Despite being the most spoken language in Pakistan, Punjabi lacks official status, while Urdu and English dominate the legal system, mass media and ...

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 ...

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