In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes ... Jalil’s ...

Many of the popular Urdu masnavis are love stories, for example, Naseem’s ‘Gulzar-i-Naseem’ and Mir Hasan Dehlvi’s ...

Aubaid Ahmed AkhoonContd from previous issueIn fact, Iqbal’s poetry was initially published in the journal Makhzan, showcasing how the press has historically served as a platform for artistic and ...

In Pakistan, Ikram Basra was known as a poet and journalist, and graduated from the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop ...

Every second Saturday, Ghalib Academy in Delhi hosts a poetry recital with free chai and samosas, welcoming poets from diverse backgrounds.

“Ya Gaus Ya Meeran,” the track in question, was an unreleased Khan qawwali, a song based on the devotional poetry of Sufism ... qawwalis written in Urdu, Punjabi and Persian that were recorded ...

A range of Indian English poets recall Keki N Daruwalla’s humour, generosity, energy, and of course, the succinctness of his ...

Bhopal, The full force of the Cultural Kaarva'n visited Bhopal last weekend, serving up a two-day feast of cultural events at ...

The presence of beef tallow in the laddu is not a minor infraction of food adulteration rules. It is a terrifying poison in ...

The threads he attempts to weave together to create his frayed tapestry of an argument include that Urdu was made the language ... heroic figure in his popular poetry which apparently represented ...

Three of their fully stocked warehouses – all in the civil lines area which ... Sofi’s taste spans both Urdu and English fiction, with a particular love for Urdu poetry), but their shared ...

But then he casually suggested we host a “mushaira,” an Urdu poetry recital ... Silence ensued as if the phone line itself was stunned. In Hindi-speaking circles, my blunder was painfully ...