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 ...

Qata, a popular genre in Urdu poetry, is derived from an Arabic root meaning 'to cut' or 'to cut off' and a qata is, literally, a piece, a cutting, a segment or a detached piece.

Successive books of poetry added to his stature as a leading poet of the country and the Urdu language. His name is reckoned with among the great of his contemporaries — Faiz, Rashed, Ahmed ...

As the number of Urdu-reading people began to dwindle in India after independence, enlightened individuals like Lala Yodhraj, a business magnate of Bombay (now Mumbai) and a friend of the famous ...

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.

He was a poet of great stature and calibre, the perfect synthesis of Urdu and Hindi poetry,” said writer-poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar, in an emotionally choked voice, later in the evening.

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).For a long ...

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL), Dr Muhammad Yousuf Khushk lauded the valuable contribution of noted Urdu poet, dramatist, critic, columnist and fiction writer, Amjad Islam Am ...