SUMIT PAUL takes us back to the past when we exchanged greetings couplets and mithai with neighbouring countriesPakistanA Pakistani editor friend of mine from Faislabad erstwhile Layalpur sent me a ha ...

Perhaps, nobody in the city conforms more to the top court's definition of Urdu than former IRS officer-poet Vinod Kumar Tripathi. Tripathi, 68, whose pen name is ‘Bashar', embodies the language ...

The first one, compiled by Ahmed Deen, a close friend of Iqbal, was in fact a critical appreciation of Iqbal but it included a copious selection from Iqbal’s Urdu poetry. Titled Iqbal and ...

has a credit of being the first Saheb-e-Dewan (Urdu Poet) and credited to develop ‘Hindustani’ into a new version,” he added. 6. Saif Mahmood wrote in a 2019 Indian Express article that “the spoken ...

The film hit the right spot with its first song, Zinda Banda Hai. A popular couplet from the poem of renowned Urdu poet Waseem Barelvi was used in the song. The quote goes, “Usoolon Pe Jahaan ...

Over time, this new hybrid language became more structured and was increasingly used in literature, poetry, and everyday communication. Urdu found its most powerful expression in poetry (especially ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 15, underscored that Urdu is not an alien language but an integral part of India’s cultural and linguistic heritage. Calling it “the finest specimen of Ganga-Jamuni ...