They call it char bait, a form of instant Urdu poetry where two teams compete in rhyme. Verses are created at a second's notice on subjects as diverse as romance and politics, patriotism and rain. NEW ...

The four designated stages inside the crowded stadium complex in the heart of the busy capital weren’t enough. So poetry lovers also took to the footpaths and the spaces in between, turning them into ...

Nursery rhymes… wow, the nostalgia! Growing up, we were undoubtedly surrounded by a lot of them. Some of them are still catchy enough to get us humming even today. However, despite being a fun way for ...

“Go on, run a search for visuals for Hindi and Urdu poetry,” says illustrator Shiraz Husain, over the telephone from Delhi. “What did you find? A hand crushing a rose, blood drops, a single tear ...

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 ...

PESHAWAR: The Lahore-based publication house Mavra Books’ rare collection of selected Urdu poems of top 62 poets scaled new heights in the literary circles. The title has recently hit bookstands in ...

A few months ago, at the launch of a book of Urdu poems—Hukm E Safar Diya Tha Kyon by Shantiveer Kaul—a poet in his mid-60s said he rarely got a chance to attend such events now because “ab us peedhi ...

Parsi orthodontist Dr Navroze Kotwal’s passion for Urdu poetry, especially its sublime form ghazal, has been a source of pique for his friends His ghazals regularly appear in half a dozen Urdu dailies ...