Join our Whatsapp channel Urdu — once called ‘Lashkari’, a mixture of all the spoken languages of north India — emerged as the region’s lingua franca during the period of Muslim rule in the ...

Canonised as one of Urdu’s greatest poets, Mir Muhammad Taqi “Mir” of Delhi, who died in 1810, also authored a collection of verse in Persian. He composed verse in genres other than the ghazal, in ...

Editors Sukrita Paul Kumar (left) and Vinita Agrawal. “…This year, one of the distinctive features in the selected poems turns out to be that of many poets unravelling their connection with their ...

My discovery of contemporary world literature and Afzal Ahmed Syed’s poetry happened around the same time, 25 years ago. The two seemed of a piece: novel and indispensable. Dazzled by one’s first ...

Right from Alaam Kei Charagho (lamps of gloom) beginning couplet of its first ghazal, the readers can assess the trend the poet Saleem ur Rehman, is going for. It goes: ‘In Khushk Bayabanon Main ...

Book of ghazals ‘Rooh di Gaani’ by Surinder Sidak was released at Punjabi Bhawan on Sunday. It was released by noted poets including Surjit Patar, Gurbhajan Gill, Tarlochan Lochi etc. Sidak said her ...

On November 19, 2019, when former prime minister Nawaz Sharif departed for London on a special chartered Qatari Airlines plane after getting relief for 30 days medical treatment in London, this ...

Note: This is the second of three poems celebrating high school writing programs. My skull stands sturdy and stable like a wall trapped inside these halls — I remain for some time. Claudia ...

This flood, you remark, is a deceit of water, a licence, a latitude, a surfeit of water. When the panchbhootas in the body bickered, I put down my miseries to a conceit of water. No amount of tears ...