A literary event was organized at Haryana Urdu Academy, Panchkula in Sector 14, featuring the poems and songs Rajbir Deswal, police commissioner of Ambala and Panchkula, has included in his Urdu ...

Getting up on the stage, standing before the microphone and harmonizing some words with melody don't define recitation. When you are reciting a poem or a story, you are giving shape to some unsighted ...

Frances W. Pritchett, a well-known critic of Urdu and professor at Columbia University, writes: “To me ghazal’s reliance on its wonderful networks of images and conventions makes it very clear that ...

Modern Urdu poem, or ‘jadeed nazm’, is a genre that is comparatively young. It was born in 1874. In comparison, Urdu ghazal is as old as Urdu literature itself and Ameer Khusrau (who died in the year ...