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 in ...

Poetry is inseparable from passion. In every act of creativity, passion functions not merely as a catalyst but as the very substratum that sustains the imaginative universe of the poet. The poet, in ...

The 57th edition underscores the Mushaira’s expanding reach and enduring relevance, bringing together poets from across the country. Headlining the evening are two of the most revered figures in Urdu ...

Who are the Ghost Peppers? What happens when a Bengali-origin English professor and Partition scholar at a university in ...

Long confined in popular imagination to the delicate terrains of love and longing, Urdu poetry has often been misread as inward-looking, steeped in intimacy yet distant from the urgencies of the world ...