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 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.

They call it char bait, a form of instant Urdu poetry where two teams compete in rhyme. Verses are created at a second's notice on subjects as diverse as romance and politics, patriotism and rain.

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 ...

Urdu literature is seldom read by the common man today, but a handful of people hope to bring it back through poems, street plays, theatre, songs and films. There is a wide range of Urdu-inspired ...

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 ...

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 ...