There are three very important aspects of the book which make it stand out from an ordinary anthology of Urdu poetry: the selection of shers born out of love for them, how they have been organised ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes ... she uses the fragments of old poetry to “shore against my ruins”.

It’s a diverse group of people united by a shared love for the Urdu language and its timeless literary treasures ...

In her latest book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu (Simon & Schuster), a collection of essays on Urdu poetry and the Indian polity, she expounds the role and significance of the ...

The poem revolves round the perennial concourse of religion, love ... the book is doubtless a valuable addition to the extant repository of prose poetry in Urdu. ‘Samaey ka dhara’ (‘the ...

(Vijay Bate/HT PHOTO) Urdu poetry often features shattered lovers rejoicing in the sweet, sharp thrill of unrequited love. Progressive poet and lyricist Jan Nisar Akhtar (1914-1976), father of ...

New Delhi: Noted lyricist Javed Akhtar launched a book titled ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’ by industrialist and philanthropist Sanjiv Saraf at an event here on Wednesday. The event of ...

The first book is a versified translated version of noted poet and ex-bureaucrat Karamat Bukhari’s Urdu poems into English ... He does not approve of prose poetry as a genre of verse.

Their stories are documented in the recently-released book Beloved ... Icy Scorn: The Poetry of Ja’far Zatalli: “Besides being the first Urdu writer with an uninhibited love for words, he ...

the Urdu poet has always spoken for qaumi yakjahati and muttahida tehzeeb, on communal harmony and co-mingling of cultures. The search yielded delightful results. I found vast amounts of poetry ...

This past year I designed an undergraduate course that I called ‘The Poetry ... “love”. The English language bundles many different shades of love under the umbrella term of love. Urdu ...