It swiftly attained importance in the courts of emperors such as Akbar, and subsequently evolved into the language of poetry, governance, and culture. Urdu was regarded as the language of elegance ...

In his opinion Faiq’s verse is like a fresh and fragrant gust of wind in the realm of Urdu poetry that serves to distinguish him amongst his contemporaries. At the same time Rao Manzar Hayat ...

“My best friend over there,” Robertson called him ... but now he was finding that writing poetry was, as he put it, “my salvation.” The unusual “visit” on the earlier night?

Lina Qasem Hassan treated victims of the October 7th attacks. But when she decried the deaths of Palestinian civilians in Gaza—and the targeting of hospitals there—some of her patients ...

“We needed erotic touch to tell us what we were.” Robert Glück reads from About Ed, a memoir about his relationship with his former partner Ed Aulerich-Sugai.The performance is paired with excerpts ...