Eminent Urdu writer Shamim Tariq on Wednesday said that Firaq Gorakhpuri is the Mir of modern Urdu poetry. Tariq was speaking at the opening session of the two-day national seminar “Firaq ...

While the theme may sometimes appear obscured, if we delve deep, ... As for ghazal, the most representative and well-trodden path of Urdu poetry, Idris Babur’s collection Yunhi stands out.

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 ...

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, ...

The bard famously wrote: “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet/ Are of imagination all compact/ One sees more devils than ...

One of South Asia's major literary traditions comes to life in New York this Saturday, April 30, when Asia Society, in collaboration with Poets House and City Lore, hosts a mushaira, a group reading ...

Famous Urdu poet Anwar Masood and Iftikhar iffy are among many poets coming to Australian to attend poetry event "Adbi Qaqahey" سنئیے انور مسعود اور افتخار افی کی ...

The renowned Urdu poetess Parveen Shakir remains a prominent name in the literary world due to her poetic beauty and excellence. During his visit to Australia, Parveen Shakir's son, Syed Murad Ali ...

He has published 82 collections of his poetry (Diwans) in Urdu and 25 in Hindi. He had even set a record by publishing 1,001 ghazals in one book comprising 13 smaller books and had also published ...