Urdu poetry has several forms (borrowed from Persian poetry) e.g. ghazal, qasida, marsiya, rubai, etc The most popular of these is the ghazal, and I shall only discuss that here.

Aside from the debate about the pioneering effort, short story is today Urdu’s most popular prose genre just as ghazal is the most popular genre when it comes to Urdu poetry.

SHORT story is Urdu’s most popular prose genre. Its counterpart in Urdu poetry, ghazal, has faced many challenges and adversaries and, of late, ghazal’s reign is threatened by a steep rise of ...

Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi’s bimonthly journal, is India’s oldest and the only journal of its kind featuring translations in English of poetry, fiction, drama and criticism from twenty-three ...

Through it, Sharma hopes to shed light on some of the lesser-known Hindi and Urdu poems, by interpreting them through videos. Launched on September 3, the series has more than 1,000 views on each ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry collection Arzoo ka dia by Doha-based poet Samreen Nadeem Samar.

A literary event was organized at Haryana Urdu Academy, Panchkula in Sector 14, featuring the poems and songs Rajbir Deswal, police commissioner of Am ...