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 ...

For centuries, Urdu was a prominent language of culture and poetry in India, at times promoted by Mughal rulers. Its literature and journalism – often advanced by writers who rebelled against ...

The Government College Ludhiana, from where Sahir was rusticated in British times for his revolutionary poetry, now remembers ...

'Urdu poetry in Pakistan is completely different from that in India' Writer Amjad Islam Amjad believes that the divide is rooted in pre-partition politics of the Sub Continent June 08, 2020 ...

Words fall short to describe the preciousness of the contribution made by Kaifi Azmi to the worlds of Urdu literature, Indian cinema, and even the Indian society. Perhaps only Azmi could have done ...

Moving in concentric circles one may begin with a core (say, the Aligarh Urdu department where he spent his entire professional life), then the broader circle of Aligarh from the ’50s onward, to ...

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.

There used to be people who simply mastered so many things at the same time that we now find it hard to believe Ameer Meenai was a master poet of Urdu and Persian but he was also a lexicographer ...

A literary event was organized at Haryana Urdu Academy, Panchkula in Sector 14, featuring the poems and songs Rajbir Deswal, police commissioner of Am ...