Try reading Urdu poetry ... “‘I would love to visit. As you know, I had Pakistani roommates in college who were very close friends of mine. I went to visit them when I was still in college ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes ... Jalil’s labour of love consists of using shayari aphoristically, of taking ...

Indian writer, singer and poet Minu Bakshi, whose first language is Hindi and not Urdu, launched her ... “Minu Bakshi’s poetry is steeped in love and even more importantly in romance ...

Many of the modern, contemporary Urdu poets have written about love. Moving away from stylised depictions, love’s earthly and mystical depths have been explored. Nonetheless, love poems of a ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans What’s your love language? For young people in India ...

Here, the willow tree symbolises despair, yet Ghalib tempers it with a sense of possibility, reflecting his nuanced approach to the interplay of love ... poetry, the classical writers of the Urdu ...

“Since it is happening for the first time after COVID, I had to attend it as I missed the festival so much during the pandemic. Once you fall in love with poetry and Urdu, there is no going back.” ...

Ramu Kharel in Karachi on his way for a tv interview about his emergency medicine work in Nepal in which he fluently recited Urdu poetry. Photos: ABDULLAH ZAHID/SAPAN NEWS On a usual bustling March ...

Love poetry in Urdu from the last quarter of the seventeenth century onwards consists mostly of "poems about love" and not "love poems" in the Western sense of the term. The first complete English ...

the Urdu poet has always spoken for qaumi yakjahati and muttahida tehzeeb, on communal harmony and co-mingling of cultures. The search yielded delightful results. I found vast amounts of poetry ...