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 language in India. For centuries ...

Urdu poetry still inspires people. While finding a sher or shayar is an issue, some platforms are giving a renewed push to a ...

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 ...

Addressing the ceremony, Naheed Manzoor said that Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s poetry is a bright chapter in the history of Urdu language. Allama Iqbal gave the Muslims of the subcontinent political ...

‘We’re not just celebrating the language — we’re building a community’ What began as a quiet attempt to revive interest in Urdu poetry has, over time, evolved into a warm and inclusive ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Poetry can be used to create a clear image in your reader's mind. You can use figurative language in your poems to ...

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Poetry can be used to create a clear image in your reader's mind. You can use figurative language in your poems to ...

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M. Salim ur ...

MUMBAI: Describing poetry as the "language of justice" and "vocal cords of society", renowned screenwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar has said the right wing has not been able to create any big ...