KARACHI: The afternoon session on the second day of the 3rd International Urdu Conference lived up to expectations as quality theses were presented on the topic of Urdu shaeri mein taza rujhanat ...

In the session on ‘What’s new in Urdu poetry’, fiction writer and critic Nasir Abbas Nayyar explained what was meant by new trends, saying that the newness meant negation of the old.

Here's how a bunch of poetry collectives and new-age poets are keeping Urdu alive and relevant through ghazal writing workshops, mushairas and poetry slams The dim light of candles engulfs Andheri ...

Hyderabad's youth are reviving Urdu through poetry readings and workshops in heritage sites. Platforms like Anjuman-e-Fannan and Heart for Art Hyderabad are fostering community and encouraging new ...

In ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’, Sanjiv Saraf puts together a collection, in the original and in translation, that’s both comprehensive and imaginative.

Platforms like Anjuman-e-Fannan and Heart for Art Hyderabad are fostering community and encouraging new voices. Urdu poetry readings and open-mic evenings are blossoming across Hyderabad — in ...

That more than 300,000 people came to celebrate Urdu poetry during the three-day festival this month in New Delhi was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India.

Urdu poetry has several forms (borrowed from Persian poetry) e.g. ghazal, qasida, marsiya, rubai, ... “In the bloom of flowers a coloured breeze of the new season (spring) ...

‘Urdu’ is a Turkish word, which means a camp. When Muslims from Afghanistan and Central Asia invaded India in the 12th century and made it their home, Urdu language grew out of the necessity of ...

Urdu poetry today needs a reconciliation between thought and feeling by creating a new romanticism in which both poetry and philosophy can once again begin to inform one another.