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This week’s poem, by Kerem Durdag, is a paean to roses, a mother who loved and listened to them, and the enduring love of a ...
The author of the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Urdu poetry collection, Safar Jari Hai, on his literary journey, the range of his influences, and the challenges facing Urdu ...
These requests often say: “Teach us Urdu, so that we may listen to, understand and fully appreciate the ghazals of Mehdi ...
In every age of transition, societies return to voices that seem to understand the anxieties of being human more deeply than ...
It is, as the Bhakti poets knew, not separation alone but a heightened state of union-through-distance—where longing itself ...
A collection of Urdu short stories gathers a cast of lively characters from rural Sindh, shaping stories that blur the ...
The book has created an inventory of Ghalib’s poetry by classifying his couplets and separating them on the basis of style, ...
In our weekly literary series, our Lahore-based correspondent Masood Mallhi reviews 'Rasta Dasan Walay Taaray' by Munir Niazi ...
Naseer Jhinjhanvi, a devoted Urdu poetry enthusiast and son of poet Mushir Jhinjhanvi, passed away at 63, leaving a legacy in ...
The Rekhta Foundation began as a digital archive. It has now evolved into a larger ecosystem, using technology and ...