I have always thought the term ‘sad girl poetry’ was condescending ... “A Mad Girl’s Love Song” confronts this censorship using the label “mad girl” for the speaker.

Ramu Kharel in Karachi on his way for a tv interview about his emergency medicine work in Nepal in which he fluently recited Urdu poetry. Photos: ABDULLAH ZAHID/SAPAN NEWS On a usual bustling March ...

Drawing inspiration from Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 thriller, “Persona,” the treatment weaves an imagistic love story between ... a form of Urdu poetry that incorporates themes of longing and ...