That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta ...

Jaun’s poetry is a very lethal combination of two of the most intense feelings - destruction and love. His love is not just passionate and non-traditional, but is also self-destructive.

GUL-I-RA’ANA (1923) and She’ar-ul-Hind (1925) are two histories of Urdu poetry penned in the first quarter of the 20th century and are often discussed, even a century after they first appeared.

Just published by Lahore’s Daar-un-Navaadir, the book contains 10 papers discussing the art and thoughts of Urdu and Persian poets, deliberating on some technical aspects of Urdu and Persian poetry.

Through it, Sharma hopes to shed light on some of the lesser-known Hindi and Urdu poems, by interpreting them through videos. Launched on September 3, the series has more than 1,000 views on each ...