Urdu poetry is often considered synonymous with love. Various shades of love, ranging from physical to metaphysical; all the nuances of the experience of love, ranging from disappointment 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 ...

Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810) is ranked among the greatest poets of Urdu with Ghalib, Iqbal and Mir Anees. Mir is a poet who has not only lent credibility to Urdu poetry but the Urdu language itself. As Dr ...

What’s your love language? For young people in India today, it’s literally a language: Urdu. It’s been around for at least 800 years; the 2011 census shows that India has well over 67 million Urdu ...

Note: This story was originally published in October 2022 as part of Outlook issue 'Recasting Shiva'. It is being replugged on World Poetry Day 2023 as Outlook revisits the power of poetry in a world ...

These words from Naomi Lazard’s translation of one of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s less-known masterpieces, Ek Din Yun Khizan Aa Gai, were among the first I stumbled upon during a simple Google search for “poems ...

The bard famously wrote: “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet/ Are of imagination all compact/ One sees more devils than vast hell can hold…” When it comes to the Middle East and Iran, South Asia and ...

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 ...

Chairman Press Council of India,former judge Supreme Court Of India. Many of you who do not know Urdu have shown an interest in Urdu poetry. So I shall briefly tell you something about its features.