Famous and emerging poets gather for a night of verse, pride, and cross-cultural harmony Dubai: UAE’s South Asian community came together for a mesmerising celebration of language and culture at the ...

Urdu poetry is often considered synonymous with love. Various shades of love, ranging from physical to metaphysical; all the nuances of the experience of love, ranging from disappointment to ...

Chairman Press Council of India,former judge Supreme Court Of India. Many of you who do not know Urdu have shown an interest in Urdu poetry. So I shall briefly tell you something about its features.

There were several writers who grappled with these ideas in Urdu literature, however they were not formally conceptualised until Muhammad Hussain Azad, Altaf Hussain Hali and Shibli Nomani began to ...

Urdu poetry, a mesmerising tapestry of intertwined and conflated emotions, leads into the captivating world of nonconformism, a rebellion that transcends the tantalising tale of unrequited love. Led ...

What’s your love language? For young people in India today, it’s literally a language: Urdu. It’s been around for at least 800 years; the 2011 census shows that India has well over 67 million Urdu ...

IT was Ram Babu Saksena (1896-1957) who first carried out extensive research on European poets of Urdu. It took him some 10 years to sift through all the relevant works and manuscripts and his book ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...

It is more likely than not that Urdu lovers would have met Muskan Syed Riaz in the UAE during an event that promotes the language. Poet, speaker and emcee, she is a very active member of Bazm-e-Urdu ...