Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans What’s your love language? For young people in India today, it ...

The four designated stages inside the crowded stadium complex in the heart of the busy capital weren’t enough. So poetry lovers also took to the footpaths and the spaces in between, turning them into ...

A box set comprising two trilingual anthologies of the poetry of Jan Nisar Akhtar and Kaifi Azmi features works on everything from the human predicament to historical events One seldom comes across a ...

Photo: Rekhta.org When the history of Urdu will be read by future generations, the name of Sanjiv Saraf will stand out among the 21st century greats. A profound love of Urdu poetry led this ...

Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s critical work on Urdu progressives and other writers is well-recognised as are her translations from Urdu. In her latest book, Love in the ...

A long time ago — perhaps in the 1970s — I observed my father, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, leafing through dictionaries, searching for rare birds’ names. He was working on translating a shahr ashob of ...