In ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’, Sanjiv Saraf puts together a collection, in the original and in translation, that’s both comprehensive and imaginative.

So, when I recently picked up my second book of Urdu poems, after Hukm E Safar—Hitesh Gupta Aadil’s Humafar: The World Of Urdu Poetry (Fingerprint)—I knew how to proceed. I read the poems aloud.

Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s critical work on Urdu progressives and other writers is well-recognised as are her translations from Urdu. In her latest book, Love ...

DUBAI — A 1,800-page Urdu poetry book, Kayanate Najm (The Universe of Najm), a collection of some 13,000 verses of poetry about the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) ...

EXACTLY 124 years ago, on February 15, died Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, one of Urdu’s greatest bards. However, critical evaluation —commentaries and re-evaluation — of Ghalib’s poetry and ...

The Allure of Aligarh: A Poetic Journey into the University City, authored by Huma Khalil, mesmerizes through the poetry it holds within its covers and the beautiful visuals it carries.

Urdu poetry book (representational)(Unsplash) The world’s largest repository of Urdu books is the brainchild of Sanjiv Saraf, the man behind India’s first and largest Urdu festival Jashn-e- ...

KARACHI: The penultimate day of the 15th International Urdu Conference held at the Arts Council on Saturday began with an extremely thought-provoking session on Urdu poetry in the 21st century. It ...