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 ...

GUL-I-RA’ANA (1923) and She’ar-ul-Hind (1925) are two histories of Urdu poetry penned in the first quarter of the 20th century and are often discussed, even a century after they first appeared.

Experience the magic of the mushaira The centuries-old legacy of Urdu poetry continues to flourish in Pakistan, India, and the Middle East through the mushaira, or gathering of poets and patrons. This ...

Goswami feared that Urdu, already dominant in courtly literature and elite circles, would eventually absorb Hindi poetry if Khari Boli became the norm. His fears were not unfounded.

Just published by Lahore’s Daar-un-Navaadir, the book contains 10 papers discussing the art and thoughts of Urdu and Persian poets, deliberating on some technical aspects of Urdu and Persian poetry.

BOOK EXCERPT Poetry picks: Read Ishrat Afreen’s feminist Urdu poetry in translation An excerpt from ‘Humsafar: The World of Urdu Poetry’, by Hitesh Gupta Aadil.

Asia Society's April 30 mushaira will take place in Urdu with English translations and spotlights such leading contemporary Pakistani poets as Iftikhar Arif, Fahmida Riaz, and Ifti Nasim. It follows ...