The Missing Prayer is a tell-tale rhythmic recital of the losses, the voids, the gaps and the simplest of the tiny things ...

The 19th death anniversary of renowned poet, writer, and literary figure Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi observed on Thursday with respect and admiration across the country. He was born on November 20, 1916, in ...

Mommy Long Legs goes ballistic when Baby Long Legs is taken by Player. Now the two of them must escape her stretchy grasp and they run through the Musical Memory game with Bunzo and try to start ...

The Long Beach Public Library and the literary group Shore Poets will host the third annual "It's a Shore Thing! Poetry Festival," a two-day event celebrating April as National Poetry Month.

Urdu language is filled with so many emotions and insights. Just like this couplet of Faiz Ahmad Faiz in which says Poetry Urdu. People like to read the poetry in Urdu image. You may find a long list ...

In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of 2024.

This book is Jalil’s labour of love. It is a khazana, a treasury, of Urdu shayari that provides succour in our dark time. Over the course of 80 short essays, drawing on her deep love and ...

The genre-crossing songwriter’s introspective “Vulture Prince” was a pandemic hit. Now she is returning with “Night Reign,” an LP that reveals her many dimensions.

Even as cultural festivals earlier this month celebrated Mir Taqi Mir’s tercentenary, a look at why, unlike Ghalib and Iqbal, this 18th century Urdu poet, so closely connected with Delhi, has ...

The GTA 6 trailer is finally here and it's beautiful though the circumstances behind its release might just be a disappointing sign of things to come.

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.