As part of the living legacy of Delhi, India’s acclaimed poets of the Urdu language captivated poetry connoisseurs this ...

You get a music band called Ghost Peppers – an unlikely musical team emerging from University of Central Florida, Orlando, ...

Sunil Pal, who was recently in the news after a video of him being snubbed at an event went viral. He was invited as a guest ...

For decades, the “Tragedy Queen” label defined Meena Kumari more like containment, as though her grief was her only ...

During a discussion at the India International Centre, senior journalist Saeed Naqvi remembered Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Sahir ...

Fourteen Muslim youths who broke the Ramzan fast on a boat on the Ganga in Varanasi have been arrested. What could have ...

LOVE and beloved are one of the central themes in classical Urdu poetry. Classical poets express their extreme love for the sweetheart. But there is a remote yet distinct possibility that a poet may ...

Everyone has lost something – perhaps a dream, a love, or a person. And sometimes this loss arrives so abruptly that we are left stunned, unsure how to react, how to move, how to breathe in this new ...

Three young poets have officially opened the Latitude Festival, performing their pieces on the theme of friendship. BBC Radio Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire ran a competition in partnership with ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry collection Arzoo ka dia by Doha-based poet Samreen Nadeem Samar. This is her ...

“What a joy this was,” Kate Wakeling said of judging the Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2025. The annual prize, run by The Moth, which celebrates its 15th birthday this month, has been judged in the past by ...