Urdu poetry is often considered synonymous with love. Various shades of love, ranging from physical to metaphysical; all the nuances of the experience of love, ranging from disappointment to ...

What’s your love language? For young people in India today, it’s literally a language: Urdu. It’s been around for at least 800 years; the 2011 census shows that India has well over 67 million Urdu ...

Ghazal, probably the most popular genre of Urdu poetry, has many moods. Of them, the most prominent is love — both physical and metaphysical. But, according to some critics, love poetry should avoid ...

Chairman Press Council of India,former judge Supreme Court Of India. Many of you who do not know Urdu have shown an interest in Urdu poetry. So I shall briefly tell you something about its features.

CHIEFLY known as one of the foremost Sufi saints of the Chishtiya order of mystics, Hazrat Baba Fareeduddin Masood Ganjshakar was a poet, too, and he wrote poetry in Urdu, Persian and Punjabi. Some ...

Winters start with a huge disadvantage. They are cold and opposite of warmth and by this very association ring a negative. So, it was easier for Shakespeare to say: Now is the winter of our discontent ...

When was the last time you heard Urdu couplets written by Faiz Ahmed Faiz or Ghalib being read from books or heard at ‘mushairas’ (poetry recitations)? To bring the spotlight back on Urdu, a ...