Back after a Covid enforced hiatus, India's premier, standalone poetry festival will be held at the India Habitat Centre – on 10th and 11th December 2022. Delhi Poetry Festival (DPF) 6th edition ...

Celebrating Urdu: Jashn-e-Rekhta's seventh edition to begin from December 2 The three-day festival will have Ghazals, Sufi music, Qawwali, Dastangoi, panel discussions, Mushaira, poetry ...

KARACHI:The 14th International Urdu Conference, the largest festival in the world of literature, will be held in Arts Council Karachi from December 9 to 12.Addressing a press conference here on Fr ...

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 ...

The headline poetry recital, known as the mushaira, during the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta, in New Delhi on December 3rd. Photograph: Saumya Khandelwal/New York Times ...

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.

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).