Khalid Jawed warns Urdu’s decline risks losing religious heritage. He critiques commercialization and literary stagnation—can ...

In Karachi, the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi hosted a ceremony celebrating the life and work of US-based poet Dr Noor ...

Long confined in popular imagination to the delicate terrains of love and longing, Urdu poetry has often been misread as inward-looking, steeped in intimacy yet distant from the urgencies of the world ...

During a discussion at the India International Centre, senior journalist Saeed Naqvi remembered Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Sahir ...

In the vocabulary of Urdu poetry, sahra, meaning the desert, is far more than a barren landscape. It is a metaphor for the inner wilderness of the heart: solitude, longing, and the untamed intensity ...