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 ...

McNeil’s reggae aesthetic relates to how poets and poetry connect to that music and all it stands for but is too wide ranging and complex to fully articulate here.

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.

Mir Taqi Mir (1722-1810), known by the mononym ‘Mir’, remains a towering figure in Urdu literature and distinguished scholar Gopi Chand Narang, who passed away on June 15, considers him ...

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.

There is a definitive tone, without compromising aesthetic appeal, that signifies Senroy’s expression. He is carefree, he is liberated. His prose poems shock you but remain devoid of disbelief.

Moving in concentric circles one may begin with a core (say, the Aligarh Urdu department where he spent his entire professional life), then the broader circle of Aligarh from the ’50s onward, to ...

Muslim poets have waxed eloquent not only on Hindu festivals but also on Hindu deities like Shiva, as their poetry is about communal harmony and co-mingling of cultures, writes Rakhshanda Jalil ...

The Digital Divan: Dr Sean Pue explores ways to preserve Urdu poetry . Michigan State varsity’s associate professor was speaking at Habib University on Wednesday.

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