Throughout his literary career, Sheikh Ayaz authored a total of 60 books, including the Urdu translation of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai's poetry titled "Shah Jo Risalo." In 1976, Shaikh Ayaz was ...

A masnavi is also a genre of poetry, a type of long poem ... but Arabic masnavis are slightly different from Persian and Urdu masnavis as Arabic masnavis may have a slightly different rhyming ...

The 49th death anniversary of renowned Urdu poet Saghar Siddiqui was observed today. His real name was Muhammad Akhtar. He was born in Ambala at 1928. At the age of 19, he migrated to Pakistan in 1947 ...

A fine example of her poetic talent is the poem Rukhsat, which she wrote on the occasion of her daughter Sabiha’s wedding.

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

In Class 9, they’re introduced to poetry forms such as ghazals ... that holds the world’s largest copy of the Quran, along ...

Hazrat Shah Waliullah Library in Old Delhi is running out of space and funds. Other Urdu libraries in the city are in ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page. He explores what tone and timbre can bring to poems when performing or ...

The lively debates and poetry sessions gave way to silence. While the decline of Urdu was already being lamented ... people ...