Gul, meaning "flower" in Urdu, is a symbol of beauty, love, and life. Like a flower that blooms for a short time, happy and sad moments also ... its meaning in poetry, and how it represents ...

Eminent Urdu writer Shamim Tariq on Wednesday said that Firaq Gorakhpuri is the Mir of modern Urdu poetry. Tariq was speaking at the opening session of the two-day national seminar “Firaq ...

I have always thought the term ‘sad girl poetry’ was condescending. ‘Sad’ feels overly simplistic. ‘Girl’ is infantilizing and sure, technically anything can be ‘poetry’ if you hit ...

Many listeners first encountered her hypnotic and immersive style via her 2021 breakthrough, “Vulture Prince”: a minimalist blend of jazz, folk and ghazals, a form of Urdu poetry that ...

But when Punjabis speak their language, they don’t take pride in it, rather they teach their children either Urdu or English ... Maryam went on to say that poetry in Punjabi language was ...

He exclaimed, “How sad, the Begum does not know either ... the conventions of love,” that characterise 18th century Urdu poetry. It is not easy to just read Kalidasa, or just listen ...

What binds these papers together is the idea to explore the technical, stylistic and rhetorical finer points of poetry written by some of Urdu’s outstanding poets, classical as well as modern ...

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 ...

Mohyeddin was also known as one of the world’s foremost reciters of Urdu-language prose and poetry. In 2012 ... civilian honor in Pakistan. “It is sad that a person with many beautiful ...