“In love, we all forget ... That more than 300,000 people came to celebrate Urdu poetry during the three-day festival this month in New Delhi was testament to the peculiar reality of the ...

The nazm or even the modern ghazal allowed more freedom to write about love in a personalised, individualistic slant. Many of the modern, contemporary Urdu poets have written about love.

Sometimes I’m also invited to judge Urdu events in colleges. These are small efforts I make out of my love for the language. – Sana Farheen, IT professional & poet Urdu poetry readings and ...

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 ...

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”.

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 ...

“is a collection of 60 poems, including some ghazals,” he says, “I write both in Hindi and in Urdu; I feel this gives me more dimensions as a poet. Urdu is my mother tongue while Hindi is ...

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

Centuries ago, a burning candle would have been placed in front of the poet whose turn it was to recite their work. Syed Farhaan Wasti of Jash-e-Urdu, who has been organising mushairas since 2009, ...

Ramu Kharel in Karachi on his way for a tv interview about his emergency medicine work in Nepal in which he fluently recited Urdu poetry. Photos: ABDULLAH ZAHID/SAPAN NEWS On a usual bustling March ...