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 ...

Try reading Urdu poetry ... “‘I would love to visit. As you know, I had Pakistani roommates in college who were very close friends of mine. I went to visit them when I was still in college ...

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”.

Among them was Lala Sri Ram, a learned man from an aristocratic family of Delhi, who was deeply in love with Urdu poetry ... and Kaifi met. Both friends wept bitterly for quite long as both ...

is a well-known name in Indian and Pakistani literary circles for his love for Urdu poetry. A dermatologist and venereologist by profession, Dr Zubair has authored over 100 books in Urdu and many of ...

Indian writer, singer and poet Minu Bakshi, whose first language is Hindi and not Urdu, launched her ... “Minu Bakshi’s poetry is steeped in love and even more importantly in romance ...

Rekhta gives them a sense of pride and nostalgia as Urdu’s charming cadence and lyricism carries them gently into a world that exists only in the abstract dimensions of poetry, aesthetics ...

“Since it is happening for the first time after COVID, I had to attend it as I missed the festival so much during the pandemic. Once you fall in love with poetry and Urdu, there is no going back.” ...

Ramu Kharel in Karachi on his way for a tv interview about his emergency medicine work in Nepal in which he fluently recited Urdu poetry. Photos: ABDULLAH ZAHID/SAPAN NEWS On a usual bustling March ...

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 ...