Urdu poetry still inspires people. While finding a sher or shayar is an issue, some platforms are giving a renewed push to a tradition in crisis.

Purani Dilli to Ayodhya, Fouzia Dastango is reimagining Hindu epics to Meena Kumari’s story in Urdu. Crowds love it.

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

Poetry: Spiritual and TerreneBy Syed Afsar Sajid1. ‘Luhu Lal Ghari: (Marsiye)’ by Iqtidar Javed2. ‘Bay Baal-o-Par’ by Prof.

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

The author with Mr Abbas Husain and Mr Wasif Rizvi.Sumera Naqvi has extensive experience in media and communications, with ...

Nagpur: In the lead-up to the much-anticipated Nagpur Book Festival set to be held from November 22 to 30 at Reshimbagh ...

Meticulously researched, politically astute and very juicy, this is a contemporary retelling of a case that rocked Pakistan ...

Renu Khanna spends her time knitting, playing board games and reading. Often she opens her little poetry book, in which she ...

Not toys, I would buy literature books out of my pocket money”•“Inspired by Somnath Sadhu, wanted to be like him” ...

People often say Karachi is too big, too crowded, too messy — and they’re not wrong. With 20 million people and ...