The second day of the Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) had two sessions on Urdu poetry in which new trends were explored besides having a deep look at the tradition of Urdu prose poems. In the ...

The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in New Delhi this month. Credit... Supported by By Mujib Mashal Photographs and Video by Saumya Khandelwal Mujib Mashal and Saumya ...

Here's how a bunch of poetry collectives and new-age poets are keeping Urdu alive and relevant through ghazal writing workshops, mushairas and poetry slams The dim light of candles engulfs Andheri ...

Urdu poetry today needs a reconciliation between thought and feeling by creating a new romanticism in which both poetry and philosophy can once again begin to inform one another. This is ...

The World Of Urdu Poetry (Fingerprint)—I knew how to proceed. I read the poems aloud. It made it intimate, being both the reader, and listener. The poets included range from Daagh Dehlvi of the ...

Sana Farheen, IT professional & poet Urdu poetry readings and open-mic evenings are blossoming across Hyderabad — in cafés, public auditoriums, and heritage locations like the Qutb Shahi Tombs ...

Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms ... Novels and short stories became very popular in this period. The new poets started writing in blank verse and free verse in order to break away from the ...

In her latest book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu (Simon & Schuster), a collection of essays on Urdu poetry and the ... ages tell us that’s new? Why do we need the mirror ...

KARACHI: The afternoon session on the second day of the 3rd International Urdu Conference lived up ... taken into account while examining new trends in poetry (1) form (2) language (3) subject ...

Platforms like Anjuman-e-Fannan and Heart for Art Hyderabad are fostering community and encouraging new voices. Urdu poetry readings and open-mic evenings are blossoming across Hyderabad — in ...