Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi: The Wonderful World of Urdu Ghazals Selected, Edited and Translated by Anisur Rahman Liberty, Karachi ISBN: 978-9698729486 456pp. As much as an expression of emotions ...

Humorous and satirical poetry is also plentiful in Urdu. However, the most popular and important form of poetry is undoubtedly the ghazal. The ghazal is a love poem written in stanzas, consisting of ...

The event will showcase the best of Urdu literature and poetry while decoding ghazals ... of love and emotion across all forms of communication — be it Hindi cinema or ghazal and light classical ...

From Vajpayee’s Lyrics to Modi’s Ghazals. Tracing the cultural and political significance of poetic language in legislative ...

Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

As we move into the modern era of Urdu poetry, Iqbal’s expansive literary corpus offers fertile ground for eco-critical analysis. His works feature a wide range of terms for trees, such as nakhl ...

Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi’s bimonthly journal, is India’s oldest and the only journal of its kind featuring translations in English of poetry, fiction, drama and criticism from twenty-three ...

Sofia Lodhi read a paper on Urdu nazm’s feminist perspective. She said although there have been only two decades in the 21st century, many an event has affected the social fabric of the world.

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.

The Ghazal is a form, with its emphasis on Radif, Makta and Matla (and a sensibility that’s innate to Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry), which isn’t easy to pull off in English.

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 ...