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 poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans What’s your love language? For young people in India today, it ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Indian writer, singer and poet Minu Bakshi, whose first language is Hindi and not Urdu, launched her Urdu poetry book titled, Tishnagi or The Thirst, in London at the Nehru Centre earlier this week.
Urdu poetry, a mesmerising tapestry of intertwined and conflated emotions, leads into the captivating world of nonconformism, a rebellion that transcends the tantalising tale of unrequited love. Led ...
Ameer Ahmed Ameer Meenai was the kind of person we don't come across anymore. There used to be people who simply mastered so many things at the same time that we now find it hard to believe Ameer ...
Saudade, a Portuguese word, is often treated as an untranslatable word. It is a word that tries to encompass the ambivalence of nostalgia. At one place, it appears to speak for the yearning of ...
Ramu Kharel in Karachi on his way for a tv interview about his emergency medicine work in Nepal in which he fluently recited Urdu poetry. Photos: ABDULLAH ZAHID/SAPAN NEWS On a usual bustling March ...