Frances W. Pritchett, a well-known critic of Urdu and professor at Columbia University, writes: “To me ghazal’s reliance on its wonderful networks of images and conventions makes it very clear that ...

Join our Whatsapp channel Urdu — once called ‘Lashkari’, a mixture of all the spoken languages of north India — emerged as the region’s lingua franca during the period of Muslim rule in the ...

A session on 'Urdu Ghazal New Formations' was held at the 14th International Urdu Conference at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi, which was moderated by Nasira Zuberi. On this occasion, Ambreen ...

Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Baker of Tarifa based on the history of interfaith tolerance in Al-Andalus won the 2011 San Diego Book Award for poetry. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize ...

Canonised as one of Urdu’s greatest poets, Mir Muhammad Taqi “Mir” of Delhi, who died in 1810, also authored a collection of verse in Persian. He composed verse in genres other than the ghazal, in ...

Editors Sukrita Paul Kumar (left) and Vinita Agrawal. “…This year, one of the distinctive features in the selected poems turns out to be that of many poets unravelling their connection with their ...

Right from Alaam Kei Charagho (lamps of gloom) beginning couplet of its first ghazal, the readers can assess the trend the poet Saleem ur Rehman, is going for. It goes: ‘In Khushk Bayabanon Main ...

Book of ghazals ‘Rooh di Gaani’ by Surinder Sidak was released at Punjabi Bhawan on Sunday. It was released by noted poets including Surjit Patar, Gurbhajan Gill, Tarlochan Lochi etc. Sidak said her ...

Pankaj Udhas will sing live in the city tomorrow to launch a new album based on Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s Urdu poetry. India is home to great pieces of poetry by maestros like Amir Khusrau, Bahadur Shah Zafar ...

Note: This is the second of three poems celebrating high school writing programs. My skull stands sturdy and stable like a wall trapped inside these halls — I remain for some time. Claudia ...