MUMBAI, (IANS) – Even 154 years after his death, the legendary Urdu-Persian poet — Mirza Beg Asadullah Khan, or just Mirza Ghalib — often referred to as the ’emperor of romance’, continues to live and ...

An exploration of Urdu’s origins, its rich literary tradition and its increasing popularity among the young as a language of ...

Urdu is a hybrid language that is based on the spoken languages of Northern India with a generous overlay of Arabic and Persian words. ‘Urdu’ is a Turkish word, which means a camp. When Muslims from ...

The 76th death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, was commemorated at the National Press Club in Dhaka with Urdu songs and poetry on Wednesday. Speakers on the ...

Pakistani expatriates here yesterday mourned the death of renowned Urdu poet Qateel Shifai and a maestro of classical music, Ustad Salamat Ali Khan. Both died in Lahore, the cultural capital of ...

That is my radiance, and mine alone, on the shores of the ocean of poetry. Thought swells in waves, with countless forms. I am the poet’s free-flowing intellect. Every morning I wrestle with the sun.

The 49th death anniversary of renowned Urdu poet Saghar Siddiqui was observed today. His real name was Muhammad Akhtar. He was born in Ambala at 1928. At the age of 19, he migrated to Pakistan in 1947 ...

LAHORE: Renowned Urdu poet, philosopher, biographer, and scholar Jaun Elia was remembered on his 15th death anniversary on Wednesday. Jaun Elia was born on December 14, 1931 in an illustrious family ...

Death anniversary of classical Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir was observed on Monday. Born in Agra in 1723, Mir breathed his last on this day in Lucknow in 1810. Mir Taqi Mir's poetry gave shape to the Urdu ...

Ghalib was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen names of Ghalib (means "dominant") and Asad (means "lion"). Most notably, he ...

When it comes to romantic poetry in Urdu language films, the first name that comes to mind is Sahir Ludhianvi, whose ...

A long time ago — perhaps in the 1970s — I observed my father, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, leafing through dictionaries, searching for rare birds’ names. He was working on translating a shahr ashob of ...