Rekhta, a prominent Indian website dedicated to promoting the Urdu language, is facing backlash for presenting renowned poets in comic book character roles.Recently, the platform shared images of ...

Urdu poetry is well renowned for its rich past, enormous beauty, and complexity in expressions. For those willing to start to ...

Dan Brown, one of the most famous thriller writers in the world who has kept his audience hooked to the stories of Robert ...

With the dawn of a ceasefire in Gaza, the writer reflects on collections by Palestinian poets that don’t lose sight of love ...

To celebrate Republic Day, a poetic meet was organised jointly by Pathshala Foundation and UP Hindi Sansthan held at UP Urdu ...

For the devoted, dedicated fan base that eagerly awaits Babbu Maan’s next song and the film with bated breath, the artiste ...

IN ARABIC, qaseeda means a panegyric ode and ‘burda’ means a shawl-like fabric worn over the shoulders, a mantle. Qaseeda ...

At their best, poets can shine on the big day ... poets across America read protest poetry, organising evenings of resistance. Carol Ann Duffy, then serving as the first woman poet laureate ...

Interestingly, the highlighted room has quotations from Urdu poetry and prose. For example, the famous line (read: muttering) that the protagonist Bishen Singh in Saadat Hasan Manto’s oft-discussed ...

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