The challenges of the Urdu script “We live in a text-saturated society, so the exposure the younger generations have to typographic complexity is very high,” says graphic designer and web ...

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M. Salim ur ...

STF: How this ‘F’ factor has been influencing Urdu poetry? NA: In Urdu literature women have been contributing their feminist skill and sensitivity to poetry, fiction, novel, drama, humor ...

Chen Nianxi has risen to fame as a “migrant worker poet,” adding the voice of China’s often-invisible laborers to the cultural conversation.

Excerpted with permission from Humsafar: The World of Urdu Poetry, Hitesh Gupta Aadil, Fingerprint Publishing. We welcome your comments at letters@scroll.in . Urdu ...

THIS Persian couplet, written by Empress Noor Jahan (1577-1645), can roughly be translated as: ...

Despite Urdu’s Persian-Arabic script and its so-called “Muslim” association, many leaders of India’s freedom movement used the language in their fight against British rule.

A new book tracking the emotions of Muslim unity and fellow feeling based on the concept of an Islamic millat or ummah, as reflected in Urdu poetry over the last 150 years, has just been published.

Passage of time has only sharpened appetite for satirical, humourous poetry in the UAE Bazm-e-Urdu’s ‘Mushaira Zinda Dalan’, held during the recent Sharjah International Book Fair, was a rip ...

Gopi Chand Narang’s book is short but rich. Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (1723-1810) is a major Urdu poet with a vast corpus of poetry consisting of more than thirteen thousand couplets.