Khaak means dust, humble, weightless, and ever-returning to the earth. It is where all journeys end and where every beginning ...

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.

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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 ...

Zakhm means wound, but in poetry, it is more than just pain. It is memory stitched into skin, heartbreak carried in silence, ...

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 ...

Once Urdu poets used to adore the captivating splendour of rivers of Narbada, Ganges and Gomati, but in the 20th century Urdu poetry the river Ravi starts appearing as a much-loved river.

Urdu poetry today needs a reconciliation between thought and feeling by creating a new romanticism in which both poetry and philosophy can once again begin to inform one another.

SRINAGAR: On the banks of Dal Lake, the Chinar Book Fair will return in all its glory between Aug 2 and 10, bringing hundreds ...

Embassy of Pakistan, Kathmandu on Thursday organised a literary event - poetry symposium, titled "Aalmi Mushaira; Urdu, Shaairi Ki Zubaan" in Kathmandu in collaboration with ...