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

Arthur Sze, one of the most acclaimed poets of our time, is celebrated for exploring the natural world, the human condition ...

Many Indians who love Urdu poetry can do so because it was translated into English or reset in the Devanagari script. Same with Persian and Latin classics, not to speak of Russian literary treasures.

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M. Salim ur ...

While many readers of Urdu poetry are familiar with the archetypal romance between the bulbul (nightingale) and the gul (rose or flower), the image of trees in this metaphorical garden has also ...

In hand is a mint-fresh book picturing eminent poets of the Urdu language who made up an amazing family with talent aplenty. Lo! The author too is a poet who finds much in common with the genre of ...

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 ...

Poetry picks: Read Ishrat Afreen’s feminist Urdu poetry in translation An excerpt from ‘Humsafar: The World of Urdu Poetry’, by Hitesh Gupta Aadil. Ishrat Afreen & Hitesh Gupta Aadil ...

Urdu Poetry –Translated and OriginalBy Syed Afsar Sajid1. ‘Beginning of Tomorrow’- (Urdu Poetry of Karamat Bukhari)Translated by: Amina Rizwan2. ‘Charagh-e arzoo shab bhar jaleiN’ by ...

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 aloud.

The Nepali doctor’s love for Urdu poetry started when Hyde shared a couplet by Ghalib at an introductory class. “We spent the entire class discussing one couplet. I was hooked by the ‘ibham’ ...