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 ...

Shankar-Shad Mushaira returns for its 56th edition, Celebrating the beauty of Urdu Poetry DH Web Desk Javed Akhtar, whose participation delighted the audience, said, “Poetry is not about big ...