Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Baker of Tarifa based on the history of interfaith tolerance in Al-Andalus won the 2011 San Diego Book Award for poetry. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize ...

Right from Alaam Kei Charagho (lamps of gloom) beginning couplet of its first ghazal, the readers can assess the trend the poet Saleem ur Rehman, is going for. It goes: ‘In Khushk Bayabanon Main ...

On November 19, 2019, when former prime minister Nawaz Sharif departed for London on a special chartered Qatari Airlines plane after getting relief for 30 days medical treatment in London, this ...

Editors Sukrita Paul Kumar (left) and Vinita Agrawal. “…This year, one of the distinctive features in the selected poems turns out to be that of many poets unravelling their connection with their ...

Ranbir Kumar, a renowned Indian ghazal singer of the new generation, is bringing the magic of ghazal to Australia. A devoted ...

My discovery of contemporary world literature and Afzal Ahmed Syed’s poetry happened around the same time, 25 years ago. The two seemed of a piece: novel and indispensable. Dazzled by one’s first ...

Canonised as one of Urdu’s greatest poets, Mir Muhammad Taqi “Mir” of Delhi, who died in 1810, also authored a collection of verse in Persian. He composed verse in genres other than the ghazal, in ...

Note: This is the second of three poems celebrating high school writing programs. My skull stands sturdy and stable like a wall trapped inside these halls — I remain for some time. Claudia ...

Jalandhar, Jul 15 (PTI) Taking time out of their busy and often stressed schedules, some policemen in the district have penned down poems, ghazals and songs to mobilise people to act against drug ...