In ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’, Sanjiv Saraf puts together a collection, in the original and in translation, that’s both comprehensive and imaginative.

There used to be people who simply mastered so many things at the same time that we now find it hard to believe Ameer Meenai was a master poet of Urdu and Persian but he was also a lexicographer ...

GUL-I-RA’ANA (1923) and She’ar-ul-Hind (1925) are two histories of Urdu poetry penned in the first quarter of the 20th century and are often discussed, even a century after they first appeared.

Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in his blog, Obama showed off his intellectual flair by evoking a standard of Pakistani culture in a recent interview with Dawn, a ...

At the behest of the muse, Urdu poetry is indebted to her contributions to both form and genre. Syeda Dua Zehra, one of Tanveer Anjum’s brightest students, and a devotee of the poetic arts ...

She brings the full force of her wide understanding to the study and biography of the Jnanpith-winning Urdu poet Shahryar (1936-2012) in Shahryar: A Life in Poetry.

His father, Dua Dubaivi, was a poet but Fazli did not agree with his politics. While his father found Jinnah inspiring, Fazli himself was influenced by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry collection Arzoo ka dia by Doha-based poet Samreen Nadeem Samar. This is her ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta ...