Many of the modern, contemporary Urdu poets have written about love. Moving away from stylised depictions, love’s earthly and mystical depths have been explored. Nonetheless, love poems of a ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes ... she uses the fragments of old poetry to “shore against my ruins”.

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 ...

New Delhi: Noted lyricist Javed Akhtar launched a book titled ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’ by industrialist and philanthropist Sanjiv Saraf at an event here on Wednesday. The event of ...

He also spoke about his deep love for writing poems in Hindi and Urdu. “Mostly, the poets who participate in such gatherings of poets have the title of ‘doctor’ with a PhD in literature.