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

THIS Persian couplet, written by Empress Noor Jahan (1577-1645), can roughly be translated as: I have given life and bought ...

‘There’s not a single Muslim student’ here. Sidra village has become the region’s Urdu ‘influencer’. Sidra (Tonk): A village ...

In this book of essays, Rakhshanda Jalil shines a light on the inclusive and pluralistic nature of Urdu poetry ...

Among those who bled the evocation of the lost city in their accounts were Munshi Faizuddin, Rashid-ul-Khairi, Nasir Nazeer ...

From the Jhula Maidan in Madanpura, the road tapers off to a narrow street that leads to the massive Arab Masjid.

Instead, he chose hard-hitting political poems by contemporary Muslim poets to demonstrate how modern Urdu poetry is changing. “After the 1992 Babri Masjid incident, there was a major shift in Urdu ...

SHANGLA: Young poets from various parts of Shangla depicted the plight of coalminers, instability and resurgence of terrorism in the region in their poems at ... at the tomb of famous Sufi poet ...

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

mental breakdowns and periodic institutionalization — the artist produced some of his most famous, inventive and moving works. “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers,” which runs through Jan. 19 ...