Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry collection Arzoo ka dia by Doha ...

That more than 300,000 people came to celebrate Urdu poetry during the three-day festival this month in New Delhi was testament to the peculiar reality of the ... and in English transliteration.

Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in his blog , Obama showed off his intellectual flair by evoking a standard of Pakistani culture in a recent interview with Dawn, a ...

Fumbling with words that rhyme with ‘unity’ and setting them to the rhyme and meter of Urdu poetry, 28-year old Afsar Dabeeri, grandson of Mirza Dabee ...

Poetry: Spiritual and TerreneBy Syed Afsar Sajid1. ‘Luhu Lal Ghari: (Marsiye)’ by Iqtidar Javed2. ‘Bay Baal-o-Par’ by Prof.

IT is generally assumed that words borrowed from the English language or other European languages entered the Urdu language post-1857, the year in which the British completely took over and the ...

Poet-translator Anisur Rahman translates the works of Urdu poets in his new book Hazaar Rang Shaairi: The Wonderful World of the Urdu Nazm, which took four years to complete, and opens like a rose ...

Of prose poetry in Urdu. By Syed Afsar Sajid. ... In the early 20 th-century, the form gained currency in English with writers like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein.

Not forgetting English language readers, Rajpal and Sons have also brought out a collection titled “A Treasury of Urdu Poetry: From Mir to Faiz”, compiled and edited by Kuldip Salil.

Well-versed in English, Urdu and Persian, Khwaja Manzoor Hussain, chairman of the Department from 1946 to 1948, ... Though he has written more on Urdu poetry, ...

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 ...