The four designated stages inside the crowded stadium complex in the heart of the busy capital weren’t enough. So poetry lovers also took to the footpaths and the spaces in between, turning them into ...
What’s your love language? For young people in India today, it’s literally a language: Urdu. It’s been around for at least 800 years; the 2011 census shows that India has well over 67 million Urdu ...
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 in ...
Photo: Rekhta.org When the history of Urdu will be read by future generations, the name of Sanjiv Saraf will stand out among the 21st century greats. A profound love of Urdu poetry led this ...
A Delhi-based artist is attempting to revive the Urdu language through pop culture. His illustrations on mugs and T-shirts feature works of Amir Khusro, Ghalib and the like When was the last time you ...
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 in the ...
The audience cheered and clapped entreating the poets for an encore. At the 56th edition of Bazm-e-Mushaira in the national capital last month, the energy and the evocation of emotions did well to ...
THE 15th anniversary of death of renowned poet Atta Shad was commemorated on Feb 13. It appears Atta Shad has, unfortunately, been entrusted to oblivion by critics. What is more disheartening is that ...
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