P oet and lyricist Javed Akhtar says social media is responsible for the revival of poetry, especially the one in the Urdu language. In an exclusive interview with India Today, while speaking ...

In ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’, Sanjiv Saraf puts together a collection, in the original and in translation, that’s both comprehensive and imaginative.

Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in his blog, Obama showed off his intellectual flair by evoking a standard of Pakistani culture in a recent interview with Dawn, ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, ... It’s designed to get a reaction from the audience,” Nagpal says. It’s why Urdu works so well in film music and protest poetry.

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 Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M. Salim ur ...

Eminent Urdu writer Shamim Tariq on Wednesday said that Firaq Gorakhpuri is the Mir of modern Urdu poetry. Tariq was speaking at the opening session of the two-day national seminar “Firaq ...

It seems that many famous poets including Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Muneer Niazi and Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi intentionally damaged the Urdu language. May 04, 2015 Pakistani poets ruined Urdu with whimsical ...

Urdu Poetry –Translated and OriginalBy Syed Afsar Sajid1. ‘Beginning of Tomorrow’- (Urdu Poetry of Karamat Bukhari)Translated by: Amina Rizwan2. ‘Charagh-e arzoo shab bhar jaleiN’ by ...