Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a poet shaped by early heartbreak and political disillusionment, blended romance and revolution in his work.

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar, the oldest literary organisation in Qatar (established in 1959), and devoted to the promotion of the Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the second poetry collection ...

IT is an oft-repeated lament that the glory days of the Persian language in the Indo-Pak subcontinent were over ...

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M. Salim ur ...

Iraqi at center of Quran burnings in Sweden shot dead before court verdict Salwan Momika’s 2023 burning of Islam’s holy book drew ire in the Muslim world. He was killed just before he was set ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is how an Urdu weekly ‘punched’ Sir Syed’s Muslim reformist movement While Sir Syed’s advocacy for realism and scientific thinking drew attacks such as being labelled a ‘satan’ and ‘a leader of ...

When it comes to punctuation in Urdu, we have a history not too long, though in Arabic the use of certain symbols and marks was in place for centuries, especially to guide the readers of Quran ...

However, the holy Qur’an only uses the Arabic term “Hubb” but not the word “Ishq” famously known in Urdu poetry and Persian literature to denote the divine love. In many of its verses which talk about ...