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In a vibrant celebration of language and cultural heritage, the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, in collaboration with ...
This song, sung again and again through my childhood, gave me more than musicality—it gave me moral imagination.
The first one, compiled by Ahmed Deen, a close friend of Iqbal, was in fact a critical appreciation of Iqbal but it included a copious selection from Iqbal’s Urdu poetry. Titled Iqbal and ...
Below are some of my favorite poems about spring and joy and the innocence and beauty of childhood. “Spring” by William Blake “Sound the flute! / Now it’s mute! / Bird’s delight ...
(Relevance: Urdu is part of the rich Indian culture. The recent Supreme Court judgment has reaffirmed that Urdu is not alien to India. In this reference, knowing about the history of the Urdu language ...
Over time, this new hybrid language became more structured and was increasingly used in literature, poetry, and everyday communication. Urdu found its most powerful expression in poetry (especially ...
Martinez's poetry book "Touch the Sky" was published in 2023 ... During the event, Martinez outlined aspects of his difficult childhood, including growing up in a barrio, a Mexican-American ...
“Children love music. I play national songs and poems for them so they forget their illnesses and hardships, for a while,” Zainab Imran tells Dawn during a visit to the Mariyam Bashir Dawood ...