June 24, 2025 – "All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche ...

A POET who rediscovered her passion after 20 years is set to release a book on her life in Kashmir and Yorkshire.

This is the ninth article in a special series by Ally Adnan that brings to life memorable incidents from the rich and ...

New trends in Urdu Poetry By Syed Afsar Sajid. 1. ‘Ku-e-Malamat’ — Aftab Ahmad Shah’s poetic divan 2. ‘Hamzad’ —— Tauqir Ahmad Faiq’s verse collection ...

Things went from bad to worse for the Kansas City Chiefs during the second quarter of Super Bowl LIX, as Patrick Mahomes' attempt to make a highlight reel play went disastrously wrong.. With the ...

In her column “Brutal Monsters,” Cate Burtner ’25 offers commentary on the literature of mental illness. I have always thought the term ‘sad girl poetry’ was condescending.

This book is Jalil’s labour of love. It is a khazana, a treasury, of Urdu shayari that provides succour in our dark time. Over the course of 80 short essays, drawing on her deep love and ...

Many listeners first encountered her hypnotic and immersive style via her 2021 breakthrough, “Vulture Prince”: a minimalist blend of jazz, folk and ghazals, a form of Urdu poetry that ...

Even as cultural festivals earlier this month celebrated Mir Taqi Mir’s tercentenary, a look at why, unlike Ghalib and Iqbal, this 18th century Urdu poet, so closely connected with Delhi, has ...

Poetry picks: Read Ishrat Afreen’s feminist Urdu poetry in translation An excerpt from ‘Humsafar: The World of Urdu Poetry’, by Hitesh Gupta Aadil. Ishrat Afreen & Hitesh Gupta Aadil ...

Urdu Poetry –Translated and OriginalBy Syed Afsar Sajid1. ‘Beginning of Tomorrow’- (Urdu Poetry of Karamat Bukhari)Translated by: Amina Rizwan2. ‘Charagh-e arzoo shab bhar jaleiN’ by ...