NISHTER is a Persian word and it means a lancet, a surgical knife or blade. The 72 nishters or lancets, or 72 heart-pricking couplets, of Mir Taqi Mir was the mantra in Urdu criticism ever since ...

a collection of Zehra Nigah’s select poetry translated into English from Urdu. Why Jalil chose to translate Nigah has an ...

Lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar, in a conversation with India Today, spoke about the revival of poetry through social ...