There is perhaps no one in our country at least, who has not at one time or another in his or her life, been influenced by the beauty and softness of a “ghazal”. Reading a ghazal is one thing 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 ...

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 ...

A session on 'Urdu Ghazal New Formations' was held at the 14th International Urdu Conference at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi, which was moderated by Nasira Zuberi. On this occasion, Ambreen ...

Shad Naved’s The Ghazal Eros: Lyric Queerness in History is a long-awaited study. This book has been anticipated not only as an important scholarly intervention but also as a distillation of Naved’s ...

GONE are the days when Urdu’s literary works had an initial print run of 1,000 or 1,100 copies. Now the number has gone unbelievably down. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, literacy rate was low but people ...

Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy broadcasted 'Sham-e-Ghazal' on Thursday on YouTube Channel of Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum. Under Gamak series performance by Taapsee Nagraj, Jabalpur and Yakub Malik ...

The Doha-based India Urdu Society (IUS) recently honoured noted Indian ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas at a function hosted by Azim Abbas, IUS chairman, at Radisson Blu. Kerala legislator Abdul Samad ...

The burgeoning cassette industry in 1983, and the portable Walkman contributed to the flourishing of mass-produced music. Udhas catered to this new listener When Pankaj Udhas passed away, his most ...

It is with this rich history in mind, buried today under a thin layer of dust that comes with the changing times, the Urdu Markaz started the Bhendi Bazaar Urdu Festival in 2014. On Saturday, February ...