Dekhna taqreer ki lazzat ke jo uss ne kahaMein ne ye jana ko goya ye bhi mere dil mein heGhalibDr Azra Raza has over the last several years won widespread acclaim and popularity in the US as an ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar, the oldest literary organisation in Qatar (established in 1959), and devoted to the promotion of the Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the second poetry collection ...

Sad to know that more than 50 bookstores lined Urdu Bazaar in the 1970s, but just 5 are left, all struggling to survive. It’s the last throes of an era of Urdu printing, publishing, and poetry. That ...

Although significantly prolific in Persian poetry, Ghalib's Urdu poetry overarches his Persian verses majorly for the reason of plummeting Persian readership, especially in India.

Even as cultural festivals earlier this month celebrated Mir Taqi Mir’s tercentenary, a look at why, unlike Ghalib and Iqbal, this 18th century Urdu poet, so closely connected with Delhi, has ...

I don’t know if you are familiar with Urdu poetry but the great poet Mirza Ghalib once wrote, “ Sad jalwa ru-ba-ru hai, jo mizgaan uthaiye, taakat kahaan ki deed ka ehsaan uthaiye.” ...

So, when I recently picked up my second book of Urdu poems, after Hukm E Safar —Hitesh Gupta Aadil’s Humafar: The World Of Urdu Poetry (Fingerprint)—I knew how to proceed. I read the poems ...

By setting up Rekhta Foundation, a not-for-profit, businessman Sanjiv Saraf has played a pivotal role in the revival of Urdu in the past decade ...

I really feel sad when people, even young Muslims, don't know anything about Raghupati Sahay 'Firaq'. In this age of WhatsApp poetry of the lowest level and an abysmal language, people have no ...

Ghalib was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen names of Ghalib (means "dominant") and Asad (means "lion"). Most notably ...