Eminent Urdu poet and travelogue writer Ibn-e-Insha, celebrated for his simple yet profound poetic style was remembered on his 48th ...

As reading shifts from shared print cultures to fragmented digital feeds, what happens to the common habits that once ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar organised the International Mushaira on December 26 in Doha aimed at nurturing the Urdu language and ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar, described as the oldest literary association in Qatar and established in 1959, held a symposium on classic Urdu literature, attended by enthusiasts, poets, and writers from the ...

LITERARY trends and movements do not come and go with the flip of the calendar. Somehow we tend to gauge literary ideas and trends according to our own sense of time when they have their own natural ...

Anxious parents shortlisting the ideal career path for their maturing child, amidst growing economic uncertainty and rising unemployment in the country, hope to miraculously pinpoint the ultimate ...

Doha: Bazm e Urdu Qatar, Urdu literary organisation in Doha, once again upheld its tradition by organising an International ...

Urdu, spoken by many millions today, has a rich past that reflects how cultures melded to forge India's complex history. But its literature has been subsumed by the cultural domination of Hindi, ...

Edited by Shams Afif Siddiqi and Fuzail Asar Siddiqi and translated by the former, this collection gives English readers a hitherto unavailable glimpse into the city’s Urdu literature If asked to name ...