Karachi: The second day of International Urdu Conference at Arts Council of Pakistan started with a session titled ‘Urdu Poetry: Old and New Creative Dimensions’ on Friday. The session was chaired by ...

Famous Urdu poet, teacher, writer and Sufi scholar Wasif Ali Wasif was remembered on the occasion of his birthday on Monday. He was born on January 15, 1929, in Khushab and is famous for his unique ...

Famous Urdu poet Rahat Indori, whose powerful and lucid poetry filled halls and connected with the young and old alike, died of a heart attack at a hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Tuesday while ...

New Delhi (India), Aug 23 (ANI): India has long been known for its 'Ganga-Jamuni tahzeeb' or the syncretic culture, where diverse religions, especially Hindus and Muslims, live in harmony to create a ...

HYDERABAD: Behta Huva Naghma, a collection of poems in Urdu written by State Council for Cultural Affairs chairman and MP Dr C Narayana Reddy was released here on Tuesday by Rajya Sabha deputy ...

Born into a Tataley Jat family on 13 February 1911, in Sialkot, India, which is now part of Pakistan, legendary Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a hardcore Marxist. Fairly strict diction, his poems ...

Famous and emerging poets gather for a night of verse, pride, and cross-cultural harmony Dubai: UAE’s South Asian community came together for a mesmerising celebration of language and culture at the ...

What’s your love language? For young people in India today, it’s literally a language: Urdu. It’s been around for at least 800 years; the 2011 census shows that India has well over 67 million Urdu ...

A famous Urdu poet Munawwar Rana passed away at the age of 71 in Lucknow as he was suffering from throat cancer, his family told Press Trust of India (PTI) Sunday. The cause of his death was cardiac ...

PESHAWAR: While painting a mural of Allama Iqbal, the national poet in perpetuity, in Peshawar, painter Siyar Khan unknowingly added his name to the list of people to whom another poet Syed Sadiq ...