The Missing Prayer is a tell-tale rhythmic recital of the losses, the voids, the gaps and the simplest of the tiny things ...

Of prose poetry in Urdu By Syed Afsar Sajid Books: ‘Kahani ek shaher ki’ by Dr. Jawaz Jafri ‘Samaey ka dhara’ & ‘Dar-e-imkaN pay dastak’ by Yusuf Khalid Prose poetry is a literary form ...

In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of 2024.

The 76th death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, was commemorated at the National Press Club in Dhaka with Urdu songs and poetry on Wednesday.  Speakers on the ...

This book is Jalil’s labour of love. It is a khazana, a treasury, of Urdu shayari that provides succour in our dark time. Over the course of 80 short essays, drawing on her deep love and ...

The genre-crossing songwriter’s introspective “Vulture Prince” was a pandemic hit. Now she is returning with “Night Reign,” an LP that reveals her many dimensions.

Even as cultural festivals earlier this month celebrated Mir Taqi Mir’s tercentenary, a look at why, unlike Ghalib and Iqbal, this 18th century Urdu poet, so closely connected with Delhi, has ...

Addressing the ceremony, Naheed Manzoor said that Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s poetry is a bright chapter in the history of Urdu language. Allama Iqbal gave the Muslims of the subcontinent political ...

The first book is a versified translated version of noted poet and ex-bureaucrat Karamat Bukhari’s Urdu poems into English. The remaining two books forming collections of Urdu verse, have been ...

A freshman dorm mate won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry nearly a decade ago. His book sold, according to the last count that I saw, 353 copies. Sure, there is at least one young contemporary poet, ...

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