Humorous and satirical poetry is also plentiful in Urdu. However, the most popular and important form of poetry is undoubtedly the ghazal. The ghazal is a love poem written in stanzas, consisting of ...

Urdu poetry still inspires people. While finding a sher or shayar is an issue, some platforms are giving a renewed push to a ...

Urdu poetry has several forms (borrowed from Persian poetry) e.g. ghazal, qasida, marsiya, ... Ghazals are written in couplets called sher, each line of a sher being called a misra.

Jalil, a writer, translator, critic and editor, has written extensively on literary figures, poetry and Urdu writing. This book lands in an atmosphere of communalism, as she reflects on in her ...

However, not many reader friendly books have been written on Urdu poetry and prose. Many masterly academic papers remained in the realms of academia and did not percolate down to non-academic readers.

I’ve been part of several Urdu workshops in schools. We visit during events, hold writing competitions, and have small gatherings to talk about the language and its essence.

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, ... “Now, writing Urdu in the Roman script is common. The internet, especially Instagram, has a big role to play in this.” ...

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.

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 ...