In ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’, Sanjiv Saraf puts together a collection, in the original and in translation, that’s both comprehensive and imaginative.

Jalil, a writer, translator, critic and editor, has written extensively on literary figures, poetry and Urdu writing. This book lands in an atmosphere of communalism, as she reflects on in her ...

Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s critical work on Urdu progressives and other writers is well-recognised as are her translations from Urdu. In her latest book, Love ...

The Missing Prayer is a tell-tale rhythmic recital of the losses, the voids, the gaps and the simplest of the tiny things ...

Discovering open mic poetry About fifteen years ago, I read a short poem in public at an event hosted by Mahendra Kutare, ...

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Of prose poetry in Urdu. By Syed Afsar Sajid. Books: ‘Kahani ek shaher ki’ by Dr. Jawaz Jafri ... The poem revolves round the perennial concourse of religion, love, and politics.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Urdu poetry is referencing ghosting and mobile phones. It’s getting quoted in Pakistani rap. Rekhta, a decade-old archive for poetry and literature in the language, has close 925K followers on ...