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

Of prose poetry in Urdu By Syed Afsar Sajid Books: ‘Kahani ek shaher ki’ by Dr. Jawaz Jafri ‘Samaey ka dhara’ & ‘Dar-e-imkaN pay dastak’ by Yusuf Khalid Prose poetry is a literary form ...

Urdu poetry is often described as the language of the heart--a deeply expressive medium through which love, longing, and loss are delicately explored. It blends elegance and intensity, articulating ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry collection Arzoo ka dia by Doha-based poet Samreen Nadeem Samar. This is her ...