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 ...

While Urdu poetry thrives through gatherings, media, social media and living traditions, anglophone verse, caught between ...

Prose poetry is a literary form that combines elements of prose and poetry to create a unique narrative voice and style. It appears as standard prose, without line breaks, but utilizes poetic devices ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans What’s your love language? For young people in India today, it ...

RUBAA’I, or quatrain, is considered a difficult poetic genre to compose despite its brevity. A quatrain, as the name suggests, is confined to just four lines since the word rubaa’i is derived from an ...

The first book is a versified translated version of noted poet and ex-bureaucrat Karamat Bukhari’s Urdu poems into English. The remaining two books forming collections of Urdu verse, have been ...

New collection of Rashid’s nazms, compiled & edited by festival director Amitabh Baghel, attempts to revive the poet's voice and make him more visible.

PALESTINE issue is basically a humanitarian one, and anyone and everyone with at least a little compassion would stand with Palestinians. Historically, the land that the Palestinian people of Arab ...