Urdu is a hybrid language that is based on the spoken languages of Northern India with a generous overlay of Arabic and Persian words. ‘Urdu’ is a Turkish word, which means a camp. When Muslims from ...

Ishrat Afreen is one of the five most influential writers of the feminist movement in Urdu literature and is counted amongst the most renowned poets in Pakistan. She has won numerous awards, and her ...

Note: This story was originally published in October 2022 as part of Outlook issue 'Recasting Shiva'. It is being replugged on World Poetry Day 2023 as Outlook revisits the power of poetry in a world ...

Urdu poetry, a mesmerising tapestry of intertwined and conflated emotions, leads into the captivating world of nonconformism, a rebellion that transcends the tantalising tale of unrequited love. Led ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans What’s your love language? For young people in India today, it ...

Poets (late) Aftab Ahmad Shah (1948-2021) and Tauqir Ahmad Faiq belong to the Pakistan Administrative Service. Coincidentally they hail from the same tehsil and district viz. Malakwal and Mandi ...

CHIEFLY known as one of the foremost Sufi saints of the Chishtiya order of mystics, Hazrat Baba Fareeduddin Masood Ganjshakar was a poet, too, and he wrote poetry in Urdu, Persian and Punjabi. Some ...

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 ...

Chairman Press Council of India,former judge Supreme Court Of India. Many of you who do not know Urdu have shown an interest in Urdu poetry. So I shall briefly tell you something about its features.

IT is generally assumed that words borrowed from the English language or other European languages entered the Urdu language post-1857, the year in which the British completely took over and the last ...