Please join us for a celebration of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, 13th century Persian poet, philosopher and Sufi mystic. Poetry, ...

Peerzada Mohsin Shafi On World Poetry Day, as UNESCO's call to honour poets and preserve linguistic heritage echoes globally, ...

The Hindi-Urdu controversy is not just about language. It reflects historical conflicts, colonial policies, and political struggles that continue today in India.

Sufi music and a bite of an organic food item just for brief sojourn. The poetry of Rumi impacted Muslim thoughts to a great extant though his powerful Persian poems later rendered in several ...

Modi drew upon the words of Rumi, the Persian Sufi poet, to illustrate the power of gentle wisdom over aggression. Quoting Rumi, he said, "Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows ...

The 46th death anniversary of eminent educator, writer, critic and poet of Urdu, Punjabi and Persian Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum was observed on Wednesday. He played a pivotal role in promoting Urdu, ...

This popular annual festival celebrates the life of Amir Khusrau, court poet of Alauddin ... a 16th-century Sufi saint who worshipped Krishna and who composed Persian translations of Hindu ...

He wrote deeply moving poetry in praise of his Sufi master but he also wrote odes to the emperors of Delhi Sultanate, five of whom he served. He wrote in elegant Persian but seamlessly wove in the ...

Baghdadi, a prominent ninth-century Sufi, explains this by saying, “Whatever draws near to God vanishes.” Tawhid does not permit a division between this world and the afterlife; it integrates life ...

Born Parsi, Sufi of heart and Christian in suffering, Buddhist in his detachment, and Hindu in his sensuality, Hoshang Merchant’s life and poetry weave together ...