Urdu poetry is often considered synonymous with love. Various shades of love, ranging from physical to metaphysical; all the nuances of the experience of love, ranging from disappointment to ...

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 ...

Indian writer, singer and poet Minu Bakshi, whose first language is Hindi and not Urdu, launched her Urdu poetry book titled, Tishnagi or The Thirst, in London at the Nehru Centre earlier this week.

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 ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes: “There are love jihads and there are love jihads. Mine turned into a labour of love.” ...

LOVE and beloved are one of the central themes in classical Urdu poetry. Classical poets express their extreme love for the sweetheart. But there is a remote yet distinct possibility that a poet may ...

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 the ...

Back to the city of poets after a three-year break, the annual festival—it commenced on Friday and will continue till Sunday at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium near India Gate—is a feast for ...

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 ...