Urdu poetry is referencing ghosting and mobile phones. It’s getting quoted in Pakistani rap. Rekhta, a decade-old archive for poetry and literature in the language, has close 925K followers on ...

Humorous and satirical poetry is also plentiful in Urdu. However, the most popular and important form of poetry is undoubtedly the ghazal. The ghazal is a love poem written in stanzas, consisting of ...

The first prize for the 2023 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation has been awarded to “Palestinian,” Poorna Swami’s translation of “Falasteeni” by Fehmida Riaz.

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 ...

Syed Farhaan Wasti of Jash-e-Urdu, who has been organising mushairas since 2009, says he's passed his love for Urdu to his kids, both of whom are taking a keen interest in his programmes. "I've also ...

Urdu poetry readings and open-mic evenings are blossoming across Hyderabad — in cafés, public auditoriums, and heritage locations like the Qutb Shahi Tombs and Raja Bhagwandas Garden Pavilion.

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M. Salim ur ...

Ghalib started composing poetry at the age of 11. His first language was Urdu, but Persian and Turkish were also spoken at home. Although Ghalib himself was far prouder of his poetic achievements ...