The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in New Delhi this month. Credit... Supported by By Mujib Mashal Photographs and Video by Saumya Khandelwal Mujib Mashal and Saumya ...

Saaneha means tragedy, a moment that splits time into before and after. It arrives uninvited, heavy and abrupt, leaving ...

A potluck feast and Eid celebration helped draw a full house to the Urdu Asnaaf-e-Sukhan Goi programme, combining Hyderabad’s ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans What’s your love language? For young people in India ...

Sana Farheen, IT professional & poet Urdu poetry readings and open-mic evenings are blossoming across Hyderabad — in cafés, public auditoriums, and heritage locations like the Qutb Shahi Tombs ...

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.

the Urdu poet has always spoken for qaumi yakjahati and muttahida tehzeeb, on communal harmony and co-mingling of cultures. The search yielded delightful results. I found vast amounts of poetry ...

Eminent Urdu writer Shamim Tariq on Wednesday said that Firaq Gorakhpuri is the Mir of modern Urdu poetry. Tariq was speaking at the opening session of the two-day national seminar “Firaq ...