For the first time, English-language readers can engage with the work of Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal, a distinctive voice among South Africa’s younger generation of Afrikaans poets.

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

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

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

Urdu's decline isn’t sudden; it has been a slow fade, not through censorship, but through substitution. And yet, as long as ...