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 ...

“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.” ...

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 ...

His love for the language dates back to the 1970s when he went to Pakistan to study; he considers the country his second home Dr Zubair Farooq, a UAE national, is a well-known name in Indian and ...

Kharel also loves basketball and Urdu poetry. Guided by his mentor Syed Akbar Hyder, an associate professor of Asian Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, he is a fluent ...

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 ...

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 ...