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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

He was working on translating a shahr ashob of Mirza Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat (1748-1809), the mid-18th century Urdu poet mostly remembered for his romantic, racy ghazals and masnavis brimming with ...

Kharel also loves basketball and Urdu poetry. Guided by his mentor Syed Akbar Hyder, an associate professor of Asian Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, he is a fluent ...