IMMEDIATELY after the creation of Pakistan, there was an overwhelming and euphoric sense of achievement and it ...

Renowned literary figure Amjad Islam Amjad in a recent live session with Tajdar Zaidi of Qissa Khwaan fame discussed the schism in Urdu poetry following the partition of the Sub-Continent. According ...

Pakistani community members recently organised a programme to celebrate Urdu poetry in connection with the Pakistan National Day celebrations at Al Banush Club in Mesaieed. Prominent members of the ...

Her first poetry collection, Khushbu, published in 1976, brought her immediate recognition at both national and international ...

We are living in times when “Dadis (grandmas) of Shaheen Bagh” daily shatter all manner of glass ceilings and barriers, yet some stereotypes refuse to go away. Take the case of women poets in Urdu.

The first book is a versified translated version of noted poet and ex-bureaucrat Karamat Bukhari’s Urdu poems into English. The remaining two books forming collections of Urdu verse, have been ...

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” These are the famous words by the English Romantic era poet William Wordsworth.

Ishrat Afreen is one of the five most influential writers of the feminist movement in Urdu literature and is counted amongst the most renowned poets in Pakistan. She has won numerous awards, and her ...

Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

KARACHI: Urdu poetry has often been accused of being too limited and narrowly focussed on a few themes such as love and beauty of the sweetheart. Urdu poetry, especially written by poets of classical ...