Urdu poetry is often considered synonymous with love. Various shades of love, ranging from physical to metaphysical; all the nuances of the experience of love, ranging from disappointment to ...

Indian writer, singer and poet Minu Bakshi, whose first language is Hindi and not Urdu, launched her Urdu poetry book titled, Tishnagi or The Thirst, in London at the Nehru Centre earlier this week.

The four designated stages inside the crowded stadium complex in the heart of the busy capital weren’t enough. So poetry lovers also took to the footpaths and the spaces in between, turning them into ...

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 ...

When it comes to romantic poetry in Urdu language films, the first name that comes to mind is Sahir Ludhianvi, whose ...

A box set comprising two trilingual anthologies of the poetry of Jan Nisar Akhtar and Kaifi Azmi features works on everything from the human predicament to historical events One seldom comes across a ...

Gustaakh Ishq is the third project by Manish Malhotra’s Stage5 Production, founded in 2023. The production banner has backed ...

Urdu is a hybrid language that is based on the spoken languages of Northern India with a generous overlay of Arabic and Persian words. ‘Urdu’ is a Turkish word, which means a camp. When Muslims from ...

Urdu poetry, a mesmerising tapestry of intertwined and conflated emotions, leads into the captivating world of nonconformism, a rebellion that transcends the tantalising tale of unrequited love. Led ...

The trailer for 'Gustaakh Ishq,' a romantic period drama starring Vijay Varma and Fatima Sana Shaikh, has been released. The ...