Historian’s eyes capture barren yet factual features ... made the city altogether like a place of enchantment”. In Urdu poetry the image of Lahore as a city of enchantment began appearing ...

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

The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in New ... Ms. Kar closed her eyes, letting the notes sink in. Music and poetry provide a moment of grounding in a fast-moving world ...

They call it char bait, a form of instant Urdu poetry where two teams compete in ... aankhon ko tar dekha nahi jata (I can't see your wet eyes) goes the first line. Pat comes the reply, Na dekho ...

The building block of much of Urdu poetry is a simple “sher” – two ... repeating it over and over, Kar closed her eyes, letting the notes sink in. Music and poetry provide a moment of ...

The top Urdu poets used poetry is a strong tool to bring about ... Their words, therefore, became eyes of the history through which people could see and judge for themselves whether or not these ...

Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in his blog, Obama showed off his intellectual flair by evoking a standard of Pakistani culture in a recent interview with Dawn ...