Pakeezah (1972) is a nostalgic journey into a bygone India of thumris, shayari, and Nawabi grace. The film stars Meena Kumari ...

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

In her new book, Barish-e-Rahmat, poet-singer Minu Bakshi stirs emotions of love and longing. She tells HTCity how Urdu poetry is still relevant in Gen Z era.

Just like this couplet of Faiz Ahmed Faiz in which says Urdu Poetry Faiz. People like to read the poetry in Urdu image. You may find a long list of categories in the poetry section like love, sad ...

delves into the rich history of Urdu poetry. It demonstrates how the language and its poets are mounting a robust resistance against the spread of right-wing-sponsored hatred and the rising climate of ...

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 ...

If you know Devanagari, then you cannot read any word wrongly. This facility is not available in English, German, and Urdu scripts,” Akhtar added. In his usual insightful way, Akhtar commented on ...

Ishrat Afreen is one of the five most influential writers of the feminist movement in Urdu literature and is ... She has won numerous awards, and her poetry is prescribed as course work in some ...

The first book is a versified translated version of noted poet and ex-bureaucrat Karamat Bukhari’s Urdu poems into English. The remaining two books forming collections of Urdu verse ...

Those dilettantes who call Urdu poet Ahmad 'Faraz' a poet of Firaq-o-Visaal (separation and union ... There's much more to Ahmad Faraz's poetry than what meets the eye. Take a bow, 'Faraz' Saheb. I ...

A few months ago, at the launch of a book of Urdu poems—Hukm E Safar Diya Tha Kyon by Shantiveer Kaul—a poet in his mid-60s said he rarely got a chance to attend such events now because “ab ...