Saaneha means tragedy, a moment that splits time into before and after. It arrives uninvited, heavy and abrupt, leaving ...

Historian’s eyes capture barren yet factual features ... made the city altogether like a place of enchantment”. In Urdu poetry the image of Lahore as a city of enchantment began appearing ...

They call it char bait, a form of instant Urdu poetry where two teams compete in ... aankhon ko tar dekha nahi jata (I can't see your wet eyes) goes the first line. Pat comes the reply, Na dekho ...

In modern Urdu poetry one has to sometimes fight the inherent ... dreams when the sun/comes riding on his chariot” and “the eye had this one desire that has been fulfilled / its greed to ...

The top Urdu poets used poetry is a strong tool to bring about ... Their words, therefore, became eyes of the history through which people could see and judge for themselves whether or not these ...

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 ...

Andaaz-E-Bayaan Aur event, which hosts Mushaira-Kavi Sammelans (the joint presentation of Urdu and Hindi poetry, two poetic forms which have their homes in South Asia) created its customary magic ...