Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in his blog , Obama showed off his intellectual flair by evoking a standard of Pakistani culture in a recent interview with Dawn, a ...

Embassy of Pakistan, Kathmandu on Thursday organised a literary event - poetry symposium, titled "Aalmi Mushaira; Urdu, ...

Successive books of poetry added to his stature as a leading poet of the country and the Urdu language. His name is reckoned with among the great of his contemporaries — Faiz, Rashed, Ahmed ...

In 1981, when I was a lawyer in Allahabad High Court, the poet Faiz saheb came to Allahabad, my home town. Since I am very fond of Urdu poetry, and since I am particularly fond of Faiz’s poetry ...

In ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’, Sanjiv Saraf puts together a collection, in the original and in translation, that’s both comprehensive and imaginative.

Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms. The masnavi, for example, is a long narrative romantic poem like The Roman de la Rose of medieval Europe. A marsia is an elegiac poem that grieves over the death ...

In Urdu literature, traditionally two concepts have remained dominant with regards to where creativity emanates from. The first is amad (spontaneity) and second is awrad (contrived).For a long ...