The student was promptly up again in see-i-told-you-so fashion. What Lall Sir said next can be taken as an axiomatic reply to any such questions shot by any lay reader regarding Urdu shayari. He ...

Urdu poetry is often considered synonymous with love. Various shades of love, ranging from physical to metaphysical; all the nuances of the experience of love, ranging from disappointment to ...

Every day, I call my grandparents, Nani and Nana, in Pakistan to offer some solace during their increasingly isolated situation. With all their kids and grandkids living abroad and the fear of disease ...

Rekhta Foundation on Friday launched its own Amazon Alexa skill where poetry lovers can enjoy hundreds of Urdu poems and shers (couplets) according to poets and genres like love, sadness as well as ...

Eminent Urdu writer Shamim Tariq on Wednesday said that Firaq Gorakhpuri is the Mir of modern Urdu poetry. Tariq was speaking at the opening session of the two-day national seminar “Firaq Gorakhpuri: ...

Jaun Elia, the boy from Amroha who kept a piece of the city in his heart forever, is known for his rebellious spirit and the intense emotions that can be felt in his poetry. His life was marked by a ...

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib began and concluded his first collection of Urdu poetry — his Divan published in 1816 — with a dedication to the rooh, or spirit, of the great 17th century Sufi poet Mirza ...

There have been more modern interpretations and studies of Mirza Ghalib than any other poet in Urdu. I learnt a few months ago that a bibliography of articles and books related to Ghalib ran to over ...

EXACTLY 124 years ago, on February 15, died Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, one of Urdu’s greatest bards. However, critical evaluation —commentaries and re-evaluation — of Ghalib’s poetry and prose goes ...

Ghalib was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen names of Ghalib (means "dominant") and Asad (means "lion"). Most notably, he ...