Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans ...

Urdu poetry is often described as the language of the heart--a deeply expressive medium through which love, longing, and loss are delicately explored. It blends elegance and intensity, articulating ...

Urdu poetry slam: Stadium crowds flock for romantic verse in a fading language At this festival of Urdu love poems in New Delhi, the poets are lauded like pop stars, even though the language ...

Tishnagi - for the love of Urdu poetry Indian poet Minu Bakshi’s book comprises around 100 peoms and ghazals that she has written over the years.

Where Romantic Poetry in a Fading Language Draws Stadium Crowds That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India.

It is written from right to left like Arabic and Persian and in the same script. By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry.

The collection presents another, and hitherto unprobed and rather unexpected, facet of Sahil’s poetry and his forays into the most traditional of the Urdu poetry genres.

Akhtar’s ghazals (not included in the selection) and nazms (poems) replace the worn-out tropes of romantic Urdu poetry with more titillating imagery and metaphors.