And there is almost never a happy ending. “Often the beloved is often a total witch,” says Gwen Kirk, a University of Texas master’s candidate in the subject of Urdu poetry.

Given that poetry is about the nuts and bolts of writing as much as it about moonlight, romance and other matters of the heart, the Rekhta Foundation's Qaafiya (rhyming) Dictionary comes with the ...

There used to be people who simply mastered so many things at the same time that we now find it hard to believe Ameer Meenai was a master poet of Urdu and Persian but he was also a lexicographer ...

A host of poets from different parts of the state recited poetry in Odia, Hindi and Urdu languages in a unique mushaira held at the conference hall in Sanskruti Bhavan today. Mubaraq Hussein ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta ...