Parsi orthodontist Dr Navroze Kotwal’s passion for Urdu poetry, especially its sublime form ghazal, has been a source of pique for his friends His ghazals regularly appear in half a dozen Urdu dailies ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...

Urdu poetry, a mesmerising tapestry of intertwined and conflated emotions, leads into the captivating world of nonconformism, a rebellion that transcends the tantalising tale of unrequited love. Led ...

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, I ...

A few months ago, at the launch of a book of Urdu poems—Hukm E Safar Diya Tha Kyon by Shantiveer Kaul—a poet in his mid-60s said he rarely got a chance to attend such events now because “ab us peedhi ...

Chairman Press Council of India,former judge Supreme Court Of India. Many of you who do not know Urdu have shown an interest in Urdu poetry. So I shall briefly tell you something about its features.

Anil and Tina Ambani's daughter-in-law, Khrisha Shah, shared photos from her wedding to Anmol Ambani with three poems by Urdu poet Rumi translated into English and the hashtag #LOVEnotfear.