That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu ... poetry lovers also took to the footpaths and the spaces in between, turning them into impromptu open-mic platforms for India’s embattled language of love.

Ramu Kharel in Karachi on his way for a tv interview about his emergency medicine work in Nepal in which he fluently recited Urdu poetry. Photos: ABDULLAH ZAHID/SAPAN NEWS On a usual bustling March ...

Drawing inspiration from Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 thriller, “Persona,” the treatment weaves an imagistic love story between ... a form of Urdu poetry that incorporates themes of longing and ...

Followers of Shiv Kumar Batalvi surfaced on the social media and described Anusuya as Batalvi’s unrequited love, who inspired ... are metaphors in Urdu poetry which should not be taken literally.