Sharjah International Book Fair celebrates Urdu humour, poetry and cultural heritage An evening with famous Urdu poets and writers attracted huge crowd at the Sharjah International Book Fair. Supplied ...

Indian poets have followed the footsteps of Pakistani poets when it came to writing about women but taboo subjects, such as karo-kari and divorce, are not so prevalent in India, admitted renowned ...

Every metropolis seems to have been enshrined into two images. The first one is created out of big city’s old, grandiose buildings, citadels, forts, tombs, mosques, churches, gardens, roads, rivers ...

A few months ago, at the launch of a book of Urdu poems—Hukm E Safar Diya Tha Kyon by Shantiveer Kaul—a poet in his mid-60s said he rarely got a chance to attend such events now because “ab us peedhi ...

“Jeddah has become a cradle of Urdu language and literature. The year-round mushairahs and other literary activities create headlines in journals and newspapers back in Pakistan, India and even ...

Mirza Ghalib is one of the most popular and well-known Urdu poets of all times. Mirza Ghalib is probably the best-known Mughal era poets of all times. His poems are celebrated for the poignant and ...

I am on a self-appointed crusade to demonstrate how diverse yet universal the concerns of the Urdu poet are. It is a labour of love to present the range of Urdu literature and how Urdu poetry is not ...

The entire hall which was lit with chandeliers and bright lights lit up, as veteran actor Naseruddin Shah read excerpts from 'Beloved Delhi - A Mughal City and her Greatest Poets' by Saif Mahmood on ...

They call it char bait, a form of instant Urdu poetry where two teams compete in rhyme. Verses are created at a second's notice on subjects as diverse as romance and politics, patriotism and rain. NEW ...