Dekhna taqreer ki lazzat ke jo uss ne kahaMein ne ye jana ko goya ye bhi mere dil mein heGhalibDr Azra Raza has over the last several years won widespread acclaim and popularity in the US as an ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar, the oldest literary organisation in Qatar (established in 1959), and devoted to the promotion of the Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the second poetry collection ...

Urdu Shayari Sad - Popular poetry in Urdu, English & Hindi. Urdu shayari and Urdu ghazals are all in one place. Urdu Shayari Sad is famous poetry of Popular, here you will find the most famous poetry ...

Sad to know that more than 50 bookstores lined Urdu Bazaar in the 1970s, but just 5 are left, all struggling to survive. It’s the last throes of an era of Urdu printing, publishing, and poetry. That ...

Although significantly prolific in Persian poetry, Ghalib's Urdu poetry overarches his Persian verses majorly for the reason of plummeting Persian readership, especially in India.

Even as cultural festivals earlier this month celebrated Mir Taqi Mir’s tercentenary, a look at why, unlike Ghalib and Iqbal, this 18th century Urdu poet, so closely connected with Delhi, has ...

I don’t know if you are familiar with Urdu poetry but the great poet Mirza Ghalib once wrote, “ Sad jalwa ru-ba-ru hai, jo mizgaan uthaiye, taakat kahaan ki deed ka ehsaan uthaiye.” ...

Sekhar Banerjee writes a two-part poem which seeks to capture the shifting perspectives of Mirza Ghalib’s Haveli at Ballimaran and the emotions of a common Indian who grew up listening to Ghalib ...

So, when I recently picked up my second book of Urdu poems, after Hukm E Safar —Hitesh Gupta Aadil’s Humafar: The World Of Urdu Poetry (Fingerprint)—I knew how to proceed. I read the poems ...

By setting up Rekhta Foundation, a not-for-profit, businessman Sanjiv Saraf has played a pivotal role in the revival of Urdu in the past decade ...