The Lahore Arts Council (Alhamra) held a grand commemorative event titled 'Tumhein Yaad Ho Ke Na Yaad Ho' to honour the enduring legacy of Syed Ahmad Shah Patras Bukhari - a towering figure in Urdu ...

If you enjoy such poetic emotions as well as the intricacy of language, Urdu Adab might be for you. The event will showcase the best of Urdu literature and poetry while decoding ... emotions that have ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry collection Arzoo ka dia by Doha-based poet Samreen Nadeem Samar. This is her ...

The Khari Boli–Braj Bhasha controversy teaches us that languages are not just means of communication—they are repositories of memory, religion, resistance, and aspiration.

Poet and school psychologist Cassie Porter debuts her first poetry collection, Still in My Heart, an evocative tribute to love, separation, and the resilience of the human heart.

The book carries a thought-provoking foreword by Rao Manzar Hayat, an ex-bureaucrat and a leading Urdu columnist, who eulogises Faiq’s qualities of head and heart in no uncertain terms.

The event will also be graced by esteemed guests such as Nusrat Mehdi, chairperson of the Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy; Ustad Atar Shakeel from Nagina, Uttar Pradesh and youth poetry mentor Navin ...

April is National Poetry Month—a good time to become immersed in the world of poetry, whether in reading, writing, or both, or even being intentional in seeing the poetry in everyday life.

In these letters, Ghalib discarded the ornate formalities of earlier Urdu letter writing, favouring a more informal, witty and candid style. This shift mirrored his approach to poetry ...

In The Heart Of Old Delhi, History Lives, Poetry Thrives Chandni Chowk, the ‘Moonlight Square’. Shahjahan’s daughter Jahanara Begum had conjured up a marketplace that had room for beauty and ...