A session on 'Urdu Ghazal New Formations' was held at the 14th International Urdu Conference at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi, which was moderated by Nasira Zuberi. On this occasion, Ambreen ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) ahead of the Diamond Jubilee Independence Day celebrations has published the first volume of “A Research and Analytic Study of Urdu Ghazal in Pakistan” ...

Frances W. Pritchett, a well-known critic of Urdu and professor at Columbia University, writes: “To me ghazal’s reliance on its wonderful networks of images and conventions makes it very clear that ...

Pakistani Urdu poetry composed in the aftermath of 1947’s riots and massacres reflected shock, emotionality, and anger. But what persisted, in addition to mourning the dead and bewailing the alive, ...

Urdu poetry is being read in Moscow and preparations are on to organize a 'Mushaira' or poetic symposium. Moscow's Institute of Oriental Studies in the Russian Academy of Sciences has published a book ...

The publications, ‘Sukhan Nishani Ishq Ki’ and ‘Rang Khabeeda Paray Hain’, represent the two most important and popular genres of Urdu literature, ‘ghazal’ and ‘nazm’, respectively. Iqtidar Javed is a ...

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee felicitated Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali at his performance here on Tuesday evening, quoting Swami Vivekananda about tolerance. “This is the ...

For the millennials, a Jagjit Singh playlist will begin with “Koi Fariyaad” from Tum Bin. And for a generation before that, it can be “Tum Itna Jo” from Arth. The two movies might be over two decades ...

Colossal and widespread popularity of Urdu language despite continuous official renunciation and lukewarm response of new generation of its native speakers owes much to its most-admired verse genre ...