These two images might appear contrasting ... of Lahore made the city altogether like a place of enchantment”. In Urdu poetry the image of Lahore as a city of enchantment began appearing ...

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 ...

Trust Mirza Ghalib to come up with one of the most poignant verses on the bulbul’s song: Turning to more everyday images of birds in Urdu poetry, a younger contemporary of Jurat, Nazir ...

(Getty Images/iStockphoto ... collection with poems from Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Hindi, English, Bangla and Kashmiri. The inclusion of multi-lingual poetry encased in one cover gives a larger ...

The book carries a thought-provoking foreword by Rao Manzar Hayat, an ex-bureaucrat and a leading Urdu ... definite images’. Similes or metaphors aside, in this process the soul of poetry ...

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 ...