The 85th death anniversary of great philosopher, thinker and Poet of East, Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal is being observed today to acknowledge his struggle and services for a separate homeland for the ...

Akbarabadi's influence, through Altaf Husain Hali and Muhammad Husain Azad in the 19th century, has continued in Urdu poetry to this day. One of the great beneficiaries of this influence was Allama ...

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 ... "Why should we ...

By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry. Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms. The masnavi, for example, is a long ...

LETTER-WRITING is a dying art, goes the oft-repeated lament ... in post-1857 Delhi — to which Ghalib was an eyewitness. Allama Iqbal and Akber Allahabadi, two of our towering literary ...

The 61st death anniversary of founder of Khaksar movement, and writer, religious scholar and prominent mathematician Allama Inayatullah Mashriqi was observed on Tuesday. Allama Inayatullah Mashriqi ...

their hometown. Stepping into Ann Philbin’s shoes will be Zoë Ryan, the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. A show at the Grey Art Museum re ...

Rising from Lahore, the Nai Shaeri Ki Tehreek, or the New Poetry Movement ... In the pre-independence phase, Allama Iqbal gave Urdu ghazal a makeover, and the post-independence ghazal embraced ...

Newly married Bollywood couple Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal were delighted to discover ... further endorsing the ...

John McCrae, a surgeon in the Canadian Army, wrote possibly one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders Fields ... by looking at some of the art created during, and in the aftermath ...

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