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 ...

Ram, for instance, is described as "knowledge incarnate" and "a mirror of love and affection ... on literary figures, poetry and Urdu writing. This book lands in an atmosphere of communalism ...

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 ...

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”.

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.

Ahmad Faraz, a true lover, poet, and revolutionary at heart, brought Urdu poetry to its pinnacle. He is famous for his ...

“In your love,” one young poet ... and is working to preserve the Urdu language. Image Pages from one of the foundation’s many books. The poetry festival was held for the first time since ...

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 ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics ... “Before this, you had to go to a poetry evening or read books or newspapers to find new poems,” Rahat says.

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 ...

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 ...