For Urdu poetry to mark its due impression on world literature, translating ghazals into a global lingua franca is critically important. In Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi [A Thousand Desires]: The ...

Humorous and satirical poetry is also plentiful in Urdu. However, the most popular and important form of poetry is undoubtedly the ghazal. The ghazal is a love poem written in stanzas, consisting of ...

“The theme of homosexual love in pre-modern Urdu poetry,” where the apologists’ justification regarding the incertitude surrounding the gender debate of the ghazal tradition is chalked out ...

The ghazal is the most common form of Urdu poetry, and, like sonnets, it follows strict rules of form: four to 12 couplets with a meter and rhyme scheme. But the similarities end there.

Ghazal to Hyderabad on June 21 at Shilpakala Vedika, and she couldn’t be more excited. For her, Hyderabad is not just another ...

Eminent Urdu writer Shamim Tariq on Wednesday ... stating that Firaq is the architect of modern ghazal. He continued to experiment with poetry, which is why there is such diversity in his work.

Drawing on the traditions of Arabic and Persian poetry, the classical writers of the Urdu ghazal frequently employed interconnected metaphorical systems. Iqbal’s response to this garden often ...

Urdu poetry is referencing ghosting and mobile phones. It’s getting quoted in Pakistani rap. Rekhta, a decade-old archive for poetry and literature in the language, has close 925K followers on ...

The Ghazal is a form, with its emphasis on Radif, Makta and Matla (and a sensibility that’s innate to Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry), which isn’t easy to pull off in English. Of the modern ...