The audience cheered and clapped entreating the poets for an encore. At the 56th edition of Bazm-e-Mushaira in the national capital last month, the energy and the evocation of emotions did well to ...

Urdu is a hybrid language that is based on the spoken languages of Northern India with a generous overlay of Arabic and Persian words. ‘Urdu’ is a Turkish word, which means a camp. When Muslims from ...

Just when we begin to think that the standards of research in Urdu — and the standards of education in general — are falling, a good book or a worthwhile research publication in Urdu appears and makes ...

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 in ...

KARACHI: A book on humanism in Urdu poetry titled Urdu adab mein insaan dosti by journalist and researcher Akhtar Balouch was launched at the Karachi Press Club on Saturday evening. Director of the ...

How does an 80-year-old Urdu poet stay relevant today? Bollywood legend Gulzar says it’s about never looking back and embracing the present, one item number at a time. Confession 1: Like most writers, ...

LUCKNOW: Famous Urdu poet Pandit Anand Mohan Zutshi ‘Gulzar’ Dehlavi, 94, who had recovered from COVID-19 recently, passed away on Friday evening. He was suffering from age-related ailments. Dehlavi ...

In the State Urdu language education took a beating years ago with falling enrolment rate, but an Urdu centre for excellence is still attracting social science and linguistic scholars from across the ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes: “There are love jihads and there are love jihads. Mine turned into a labour of love.” ...