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 ...

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 ...

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.

“ 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.

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 ...

Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer Andaaz-E-Bayaan Aur event, which hosts Mushaira-Kavi Sammelans (the joint presentation of Urdu and Hindi poetry, two poetic forms which have their homes in South Asia) ...

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.

BOOK EXCERPT Poetry picks: Read Ishrat Afreen’s feminist Urdu poetry in translation An excerpt from ‘Humsafar: The World of Urdu Poetry’, by Hitesh Gupta Aadil.