If you want to make high-brow small talk at one of President Barack Obama’s cocktail parties, don’t bother brushing up your Shakespeare. Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in ...

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 ...

Modern Urdu verse has successfully crafted its own distinct identity as a genre without breaking away from past traditions. Renowned poet, Aftab Iqbal Shamim, said this on Monday at a literary ...

ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: Poet Ahmad Faraz passed away in Islamabad on Monday night. He was 78. His funeral prayer will be offered at the Islamabad Graveyard at 6pm on Tuesday, his son Shibli Faraz told a ...

Prose poetry is a literary form that combines elements of prose and poetry to create a unique narrative voice and style. It appears as standard prose, without line breaks, but utilizes poetic devices ...

Andaaz-E-Bayaan Aur event, which hosts Mushaira-Kavi Sammelans (the joint presentation of Urdu and Hindi poetry, two poetic forms which have their homes in South Asia) created its customary magic ...