Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Ghazal Cosmopolitan is, in her own words, “part love letter to Urdu… and part manual for the craft of ghazal.” Writing in English, the author feels that the ghazal has the ...

English readers have loved Russian classic writers, the French naturalists, and the Latin American greats without even bothering to know the names of their English translators. The Translator’s ...

One in millions follows knowledge like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought. PROF GOPI CHAND NARANG is one such luminary, and I am dedicating the couplet quoted above to his ...

Anisur Rahman, currently senior advisor to the Rekhta Foundation, and formerly professor and head of English at Jamia Millia Islamia University, is the author of numerous books and essays on ...

Could the incredible and multi-layered tale of social fraternising and spiritual intermingling be easily comprehended through a verse form which seemingly has the bearings of a foisted and derivative ...

NEW DELHI: At an event jointly organised by Oxford University Press and The Rekhta Foundation, celebrated lyricist, poet Gulzar released The Urdu Ghazal: A Gift of India’s Composite Culture written by ...

The venerable 89-year-old literary theorist on his early memories of growing up in Balochistan, arriving in Delhi after Partition, on the poetry of Ghalib and Mir, and on his lifelong association with ...

Singer and poet Minu Bakshi talks about her love for poetry, her new collection of poems in Urdu, and how every attempt at rhyming doesn’t make a ghazal. She’s from a close-knit, well-off, and ...

As much as an expression of emotions and ideas, poetry is also a manifestation of the culture, tradition and socio-political conditions of a society. Language, the cloak of poetry, is itself deeply ...

While the literati may not still be reconciled to the idea of Karachi being a distinct school or dabistan of poetry, Dr Javed Manzar not only did his doctorate to argue this thesis but has also come ...