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

Ma Yongbo 马永波 celebrates his birthday on the 17th July 2025. When he was born, he was called Yongbo 永波 (Forever Wave) by his ...

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

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

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf.

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

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 ...

‘Best way to learn Urdu’: Hyderabadis gather at Public Garden over love for Urdu poetry, prose It’s a diverse group of people united by a shared love for the Urdu language and its timeless literary ...

Once, poetry was ink spilling spontaneously and consciously onto parchment, then wrapped in the folds of intimacy, passed hand to hand, tucked into books and kept in drawers for decades. Today, it ...

Of prose poetry in Urdu By Syed Afsar Sajid Books: ‘Kahani ek shaher ki’ by Dr. Jawaz Jafri ‘Samaey ka dhara’ & ‘Dar-e-imkaN pay dastak’ by Yusuf Khalid Prose poetry is a literary form ...