Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry ...

Urdu Poetry –Translated and OriginalBy Syed Afsar Sajid1. ‘Beginning of Tomorrow’- (Urdu Poetry of Karamat Bukhari)Translated by: Amina Rizwan2. ‘Charagh-e arzoo shab bhar jaleiN’ by ...

The provenance of Urdu literature produced in Pakistan in the last 75 years lies in the poetics of modern-national literature which began in response to colonial conditions of the late 19th Century ...

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 ...

Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi recently launched an Urdu poetry album 'Shayarana - Sartaj'. The heart and soul behind the Urdu album is Satinder Sartaaj. It comprises beautiful poetries in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...