His father, Dua Dubaivi, was a poet but Fazli did not agree with his politics. While his father found Jinnah inspiring, ... His first collection of Urdu poetry was published in 1969.

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 ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry collection Arzoo ka dia by Doha-based poet Samreen Nadeem Samar. This is her ...

For most, Urdu poetry means a lot of elegant sighing about matters of the heart, beauty and existence. What you do not expect is feminism—in-your-face, aggrieved, angry and hurting. ‘Hum ...

Celebrating Shiva And Multiculturalism Of Urdu Poetry . Note: This story was originally published in October 2022 as part of Outlook issue 'Recasting Shiva'.

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 ...

Eminent Urdu writer Shamim Tariq on Wednesday said that Firaq Gorakhpuri is the Mir of modern Urdu poetry. Tariq was speaking at the opening session of the two-day national seminar “Firaq ...