Daniele Speziale, 27, known as Rahi Italvi, works at the visa application centre in Kolkata and performs Urdu ghazals across the city Daniele Speziale, 27, also known as Rahi Italvi When 27-year-old ...

“White Lotus” star Haley Lu Richardson joins TODAY to discuss her playful and deeply personal collection of poetry called “I’m Sad and Horny.” She opens up about how it contains clown themes and ...

A vibrant event titled 'Mehfil-e-Sukhan' celebrated the timeless art of Urdu poetry in the federal capital, bringing together some of Pakistan's most distinguished poets and poetry enthusiasts. The ...

Kaise Keh Doon Ki Mujhe Chor Diya Hai Usne - Popular poetry in Urdu, English & Hindi. Urdu shayari and Urdu ghazals are all in one place. Kaise Keh Doon Ki Mujhe Chor Diya Hai Usne is famous poetry of ...

Pratibha Singh Baghel is all set to bring Dastaan-E-Ghazal to Hyderabad on June 21 at Shilpakala Vedika, and she couldn’t be more excited. For her, Hyderabad is not just another venue, it’s a city ...

Poets (late) Aftab Ahmad Shah (1948-2021) and Tauqir Ahmad Faiq belong to the Pakistan Administrative Service. Coincidentally they hail from the same tehsil and district viz. Malakwal and Mandi ...

It’s not an animal that resembles an elk and runs quickly. A ghazal is a type of poem. Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic ...

These words from Naomi Lazard’s translation of one of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s less-known masterpieces, Ek Din Yun Khizan Aa Gai, were among the first I stumbled upon during a simple Google search for “poems ...

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 ...

When the sky plays chess, you, me, we’re all chessmen. Like every beginner, it enjoys breaking the pieces. Poets, like sovereigns, can suffer under the grandiloquent titles thrust upon them by their ...

The genre-crossing songwriter’s introspective “Vulture Prince” was a pandemic hit. Now she is returning with “Night Reign,” an LP that reveals her many dimensions. By Sam Sodomsky In a remote studio ...

In the 1980s, when ghazal, one of the most popular expressions of Urdu poetry, rose to the Indian musical stage, a poignant nazm describing a father’s emotions after receiving a letter from home ...