Frances W. Pritchett, a well-known critic of Urdu and professor at Columbia University, writes: “To me ghazal’s reliance on its wonderful networks of images and conventions makes it very clear that ...

Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Baker of Tarifa based on the history of interfaith tolerance in Al-Andalus won the 2011 San Diego Book Award for poetry. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize ...

Editors Sukrita Paul Kumar (left) and Vinita Agrawal. “…This year, one of the distinctive features in the selected poems turns out to be that of many poets unravelling their connection with their ...

Canonised as one of Urdu’s greatest poets, Mir Muhammad Taqi “Mir” of Delhi, who died in 1810, also authored a collection of verse in Persian. He composed verse in genres other than the ghazal, in ...

Book of ghazals ‘Rooh di Gaani’ by Surinder Sidak was released at Punjabi Bhawan on Sunday. It was released by noted poets including Surjit Patar, Gurbhajan Gill, Tarlochan Lochi etc. Sidak said her ...

On November 19, 2019, when former prime minister Nawaz Sharif departed for London on a special chartered Qatari Airlines plane after getting relief for 30 days medical treatment in London, this ...

Pankaj Udhas will sing live in the city tomorrow to launch a new album based on Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s Urdu poetry. India is home to great pieces of poetry by maestros like Amir Khusrau, Bahadur Shah Zafar ...

Jalandhar, Jul 15 (PTI) Taking time out of their busy and often stressed schedules, some policemen in the district have penned down poems, ghazals and songs to mobilise people to act against drug ...