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 ...

Doha: Bazm e Urdu Qatar, Urdu literary organisation in Doha, once again upheld its tradition by organising an International ...

IMMEDIATELY after the creation of Pakistan, there was an overwhelming and euphoric sense of achievement and it ...

In this episode of Urdunama, host Fabeha Syed turns to one of Ghalib’s most well-known ghazals, ‘Koi Umeed Bar Nahin Aati’, ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar organised the International Mushaira on December 26 in Doha aimed at nurturing the Urdu language and ...

Note: This story was originally published in October 2022 as part of Outlook issue 'Recasting Shiva'. It is being replugged on World Poetry Day 2023 as Outlook revisits the power of poetry in a world ...

In her new book, ‘Love in the Time of Hate’, the writer and literary historian examines the role of Urdu poetry and its tradition of probing loving and uncomfortable truths about the idea of ...

Her first poetry collection, Khushbu, published in 1976, brought her immediate recognition at both national and international ...

Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s critical work on Urdu progressives and other writers is well-recognised as are her translations from Urdu. In her latest book, Love in the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today countered Congress' Mallikarjun Kharge in Lok Sabha using lines from an Urdu poetry by Bashir Badr. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech while replying to the ...