“In your love,” one young poet ... on the platform was literature, language, poetry and other arts.” Yet Urdu has remained the key language of romantic expression in the songs and cinema ...

The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival ... singing popular romantic songs, backed by a young man on guitar, and jostling to recite verses of their own. “In your love,” one young poet ...

Urdu poetry is often considered synonymous with ... the lover’s endless wait, romantic trysts, love sickness, the lover’s possessiveness, the beloved’s tyrannical nature, the insecurity ...

Sadly, many lousy poetry ... the legendary Mughal era Urdu poet, it would be tough for you to distinguish. Our favourite are his couplets that capture the pathos of love and are also, the best ...

Indian writer, singer and poet Minu Bakshi, whose first language is Hindi and not Urdu, launched her ... “Minu Bakshi’s poetry is steeped in love and even more importantly in romance ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes ... Jalil’s labour of love consists of using shayari aphoristically, of taking ...

“Since it is happening for the first time after COVID, I had to attend it as I missed the festival so much during the pandemic. Once you fall in love with poetry and Urdu, there is no going back.” ...

Drawing inspiration from Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 thriller, “Persona,” the treatment weaves an imagistic love story between ... a form of Urdu poetry that incorporates themes of longing and ...

His couplets instil love, a sense of patriotism and honour towards the country and many claim that there is no match of his stature in Urdu poetry. Check out some of his sher on love and life that ...