Explore the profound ways Urdu captures the complexities of loss, offering solace and understanding beyond words By Hibban Showkat Everyone has lost something - perhaps a dream, a love, or a person.

I first met her in 1987 with Khushwant Singh at a calligraphy exhibition in Delhi. Sadia Dehlvi was so vivacious and effervescent. She enthusiastically introduced herself to Khushwant. “You must have ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: Poet Ahmad Faraz passed away in Islamabad on Monday night. He was 78. His funeral prayer will be offered at the Islamabad Graveyard at 6pm on Tuesday, his son Shibli Faraz told a ...

In 1981, when I was a lawyer in Allahabad High Court, the poet Faiz saheb came to Allahabad, my home town. Since I am very fond of Urdu poetry, and since I am particularly fond of Faiz’s poetry, I ...

If you want to make high-brow small talk at one of President Barack Obama’s cocktail parties, don’t bother brushing up your Shakespeare. Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in ...

In the latter half of the 19th century, a movement to replace Urdu by so-called Hindi arose with the sole emphasis on replacing the Persian nastaliq script by Nagari. Therefore, institutions like ...