Ameer Ahmed Ameer Meenai was the kind of person we don't come across anymore. There used to be people who simply mastered so many things at the same time that we now find it hard to believe Ameer ...

KARACHI: Urdu poetry has often been accused of being too limited and narrowly focussed on a few themes such as love and beauty of the sweetheart. Urdu poetry, especially written by poets of classical ...

Chairman Press Council of India,former judge Supreme Court Of India. The power of Urdu poetry was strikingly illustrated in a matter in which I had a hand. This was the case of Gopal Das, decided by a ...

Famous Urdu poet, teacher, writer and Sufi scholar Wasif Ali Wasif was remembered on the occasion of his birthday on Monday. He was born on January 15, 1929, in Khushab and is famous for his unique ...

New Delhi (India), Aug 23 (ANI): India has long been known for its 'Ganga-Jamuni tahzeeb' or the syncretic culture, where diverse religions, especially Hindus and Muslims, live in harmony to create a ...

NEW DELHI: Aspiring English poets have multiple online resources telling them how to write a sonnet, haiku or limerick but those aspiring to pen Urdu verse have just the Qaafiya Dictionary to help ...

Saudade, a Portuguese word, is often treated as an untranslatable word. It is a word that tries to encompass the ambivalence of nostalgia. At one place, it appears to speak for the yearning of ...

Debates on man’s purpose in life have been as old as his existence and, at some phase, call in question the role of the world – is it friendly, hostile or supremely indifferent? Taking the last ...

Born into a Tataley Jat family on 13 February 1911, in Sialkot, India, which is now part of Pakistan, legendary Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a hardcore Marxist. Fairly strict diction, his poems ...

HYDERABAD: Behta Huva Naghma, a collection of poems in Urdu written by State Council for Cultural Affairs chairman and MP Dr C Narayana Reddy was released here on Tuesday by Rajya Sabha deputy ...