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 ...

Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in his blog, Obama showed off his intellectual flair by evoking a standard of Pakistani culture in a recent interview with Dawn, ...

Asia Society's April 30 mushaira will take place in Urdu with English translations and spotlights such leading contemporary Pakistani poets as Iftikhar Arif, Fahmida Riaz, and Ifti Nasim. It follows ...

Poetry picks: Read Ishrat Afreen’s feminist Urdu poetry in translation An excerpt from ‘Humsafar: The World of Urdu Poetry’, by Hitesh Gupta Aadil. Ishrat Afreen & Hitesh Gupta Aadil ...

This book is Jalil’s labour of love. It is a khazana, a treasury, of Urdu shayari that provides succour in our dark time. Over the course of 80 short essays, drawing on her deep love and ...

The Nepali doctor’s love for Urdu poetry started when Hyde shared a couplet by Ghalib at an introductory class. “We spent the entire class discussing one couplet. I was hooked by the ‘ibham’ ...

Urdu poet Shaharyar. Mujra performed on a meaningful Ghazal, is a treat for connoisseurs of poetry and music. Muzaffar Ali’s movie Umrao Jaan, perhaps succeeded in creating a cult of immortal music.

NEW DELHI: Shankar-Shaad Mushaira -- one of the three historic Urdu poetry symposiums -- will bring veterans and new-age writers/poets to the same podium. The a ...