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 ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes: “There are love jihads and there are love jihads. Mine turned into a labour of love.” ...

If you want to make high-brow small talk at one of President Barack Obama’s cocktail parties, don’t bother brushing up your Shakespeare. Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in ...

Penned by the celebrated Urdu poet of his times, Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, popularly known as Ghalib, we’ve heard these lines in several renditions, in films, as a film’s title, a song by Jagjit ...

New Delhi: Noted lyricist Javed Akhtar launched a book titled ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’ by industrialist and philanthropist Sanjiv Saraf at an event here on Wednesday. The event of the ...

Famous and emerging poets gather for a night of verse, pride, and cross-cultural harmony Dubai: UAE’s South Asian community came together for a mesmerising celebration of language and culture at the ...