Rekha’s Umrao Jaan remains unforgettable. Muzaffar Ali speaks on poetry, fashion, and how a film became a cultural landmark in Indian cinema. Trending. Life + Culture.

Award-winning Indian poet, lyricist, and scriptwriter Javed Akhtar has been awarded the esteemed Dostoevsky Star Award by the ...

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 ...

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.

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Oral historian Sohail Hashmi into a new wave of dissent in Urdu poetry at a Delhi workshop earlier this month. ‘It’s asking important questions, raising serious issues.’ While Sir Syed’s advocacy for ...

New Delhi: In a quiet corner of Delhi’s Neb Sarai, a small band of Urdu poetry lovers gathered for an evening of verse. But this time, it wasn’t love or heartbreak in the air—it was words of protest, ...

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 ...

Syed will discuss the different ways in which azmaish is used in Urdu poetry, and will read some of her favorite poems that feature this word. She will also explore the cultural significance of ...

The 'Urdu Poetry Project' is a manifestation of the belonging of the two individuals who come from a world where individuals were identified on the basis of the language they spoke, and not their ...

GUL-I-RA’ANA (1923) and She’ar-ul-Hind (1925) are two histories of Urdu poetry penned in the first quarter of the 20th century and are often discussed, even a century after they first appeared.