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 ...

The headline poetry recital, known as the mushaira, during the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta, in New Delhi on December 3rd. Photograph: Saumya Khandelwal/New York Times ...

This book is Jalil’s labour of love. It is a khazana, a treasury, of Urdu shayari that provides succour in our dark time. Over the course of 80 short essays, drawing on her deep love and ...

With Urdu gradually freeing itself from its ‘Muslim’ tag and reclaiming its rightful place as a people’s language, perhaps it is time to re-visit these texts.

In her latest book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu (Simon & Schuster), a collection of essays on Urdu poetry and the Indian polity, she expounds the role and significance of the ...

In ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’, Sanjiv Saraf puts together a collection, in the original and in translation, that’s both comprehensive and imaginative.

Ashfaq Husain talked about Urdu poetry written in other parts of the world. He said the poems penned in the West are an extension of what’s being written in Pakistan.

GUL-I-RA’ANA (1923) and She’ar-ul-Hind (1925) are two histories of Urdu poetry penned in the first quarter of the 20th century and are often discussed, even a century after they first appeared.

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry collection Arzoo ka dia by Doha-based poet Samreen Nadeem Samar. This is her ...