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 ...

Muhammad Ali's words helped define him as a man of more than just brawn. ... The poetry of Muhammad Ali in his own voice (slideshow) Published: Jun. 04, 2016, 10:56 a.m. By .

The Nepali doctor’s love for Urdu poetry started when Hyde shared a couplet by Ghalib at an introductory class. “We spent the entire class discussing one couplet. I was hooked by the ‘ibham’ ...

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

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and Magic Things, a book of illustrated poems for kids.

Punjab Governor Muhammad Baligh-ur-Rehman says the life of Hazrat Muhammad (SAWW) is the beacon of light for entire mankind. Addressing a ceremony in connection with Eid Milad-un-Nabi (SAWW) ...

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 ...

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.

He claimed to be the messiah whose advent was foretold by the Prophet Muhammad. The sect, one of 73 in Islam, recognises a line of prophets, including Zarathustra, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Krishna ...