Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in his blog, Obama showed off his intellectual flair by evoking a standard of Pakistani culture in a recent interview with Dawn, a ...

Thus, saudade seems to recur in different forms in Urdu poetry. At one place, it appears as quintessence for nostalgia and another place it refers to the unconsummated love lingering in one’s life.

In ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’, Sanjiv Saraf puts together a collection, in the original and in translation, that’s both comprehensive and imaginative.

COLUMN: URDU POETRY’S EXPANDING SENSIBILITIES Harris Khalique Published January 14, 2024 0 Join our Whatsapp channel ...

Humorous and satirical poetry is also plentiful in Urdu. However, the most popular and important form of poetry is undoubtedly the ghazal. The ghazal is a love poem written in stanzas, consisting of ...

Read more belowSen acknowledged that Gerard Manley Hopkins was a key influence in terms of craft. The poet, who wrote the most during his five-year stay in Dhaka, read out a few poems, including his ...

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M. Salim ur ...

In Urdu literature, traditionally two concepts have remained dominant with regards to where creativity emanates from. The first is amad (spontaneity) and second is awrad (contrived).