Back after a Covid enforced hiatus, India's premier, standalone poetry festival will be held at the India Habitat Centre – on 10th and 11th December 2022. Delhi Poetry Festival (DPF) 6th edition ...

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 ...

December 1, 2024. Trees were deeply ... Drawing on the traditions of Arabic and Persian poetry, the classical writers of the Urdu ghazal frequently employed interconnected metaphorical systems.

In “December,” which was developed at the 2023 Alley All New Festival, the Maude character is Carolina (played by Maggie Bofill and Patricia Duran), a writing professor who catches the eye and ...

Celebrating Urdu: Jashn-e-Rekhta's seventh edition to begin from December 2 The three-day festival will have Ghazals, Sufi music, Qawwali, Dastangoi, panel discussions, Mushaira, poetry ...

Eminent Urdu writer Shamim Tariq on Wednesday said that Firaq Gorakhpuri is the Mir of modern Urdu poetry. Tariq was speaking at the opening session of the two-day national seminar “Firaq ...

In December 2022, the Kumar-led election commission floated the concept of remote voting and invited political parties to see a demonstration of a prototype of a Remote Voting Machine.

Addressing the ceremony, Naheed Manzoor said that Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s poetry is a bright chapter in the history of Urdu language. Allama Iqbal gave the Muslims of the subcontinent political ...

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 ...

Ghalib started composing poetry at the age of 11. His first language was Urdu, but Persian and Turkish were also spoken at home. Although Ghalib himself was far prouder of his poetic achievements ...