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 ...

KARACHI, Oct 23 Urdu shaeri mein naey mozu'at (new subjects in Urdu poetry), a book by Manzar Ayubi, was launched at the Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu office on Saturday. Aftab Ahmed Khan presided over the ...

Urdu poetry has always lived through the human voice. Its power lies not just in what is said, but in how it sounds ...

Ishrat Afreen is one of the five most influential writers of the feminist movement in Urdu literature and is counted amongst the most renowned poets in Pakistan. She has won numerous awards, and her ...

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.

The second day of the 10th edition of Jashn-e-Rekhta saw a mushaira by acclaimed names, including Wasim Barelvi, Javed Akhtar ...

Last year, some impressive works of poetry came out, in the genres of both nazm and ghazal. They not only have literary merit but are also relevant in the current political and social context. One of ...

Dr Nuzhat Abbasi is one of Pakistan’s best-known contemporary women poet, who also has a most natural prowess and elegance with which she brings verse to life. A poet as well as a social curator and ...

Dhoop Chhaon”and “Mein Tanhayee Mein Sochta Hoon”. Author : Dr. Jitendra Udhampuri Publisher : Highbrow Publications, Bari ...

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 ...