A few months ago, at the launch of a book of Urdu poems—Hukm E Safar Diya Tha Kyon by Shantiveer Kaul—a poet in his mid-60s said he rarely got a chance to attend such events now because “ab us peedhi ...

Prose poetry is a literary form that combines elements of prose and poetry to create a unique narrative voice and style. It appears as standard prose, without line breaks, but utilizes poetic devices ...

RUBAA’I, or quatrain, is considered a difficult poetic genre to compose despite its brevity. A quatrain, as the name suggests, is confined to just four lines since the word rubaa’i is derived from an ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans What’s your love language? For young people in India today, it ...

The first book is a versified translated version of noted poet and ex-bureaucrat Karamat Bukhari’s Urdu poems into English. The remaining two books forming collections of Urdu verse, have been ...

PALESTINE issue is basically a humanitarian one, and anyone and everyone with at least a little compassion would stand with Palestinians. Historically, the land that the Palestinian people of Arab ...

The four-day 18th Aalmi Urdu Conference 2025 — Jashan-e-Pakistan, organised by the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi, concluded at the YMCA Ground, encapsulating the diverse colors of literature and ...