Ikk Panjab is redefining Punjabi cuisine, moving beyond common stereotypes to showcase the rich diversity of its micro-regions.

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

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

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

A POET who rediscovered her passion after 20 years is set to release a book on her life in Kashmir and Yorkshire.

Urdu isn’t inherently Islamic or exclusive to Muslims. ... comedy, and poetry clubs, defying linguistic purism. As poet Jameela Nishat said, "Dakhni is our ... Written by: Hariom, M.A ...

New trends in Urdu Poetry By Syed Afsar Sajid. 1. ‘Ku-e-Malamat’ — Aftab Ahmad Shah’s poetic divan 2. ... nazms and ghazals purporting to have been written during the period from 1963 to 1990.

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 ...

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.” ...

And even after Independence, especially until 1960, very good Urdu poetry was being written and read. “My father [Jan Nisar Akhtar] published a history of the last 350 years of Urdu poetry in ...