The student was promptly up again in see-i-told-you-so fashion. What Lall Sir said next can be taken as an axiomatic reply to any such questions shot by any lay reader regarding Urdu shayari. He ...

Every day, I call my grandparents, Nani and Nana, in Pakistan to offer some solace during their increasingly isolated situation. With all their kids and grandkids living abroad and the fear of disease ...

LAST week I was on a short visit to Delhi at the invitation of the Ghalib Institute. The occasion was the institute’s annual international seminar and this year the subject of discussion was ‘Founders ...

“Urdu is a nation unto itself… Wherever Urdu goes, it clasps people in a bear hug. It becomes a tradition unto itself. For Urdu is, after all, the lingua franca of a culture,” wrote Gulzar in the ...

Amidst this charged atmosphere, few voices rang with as much passion, defiance, and revolutionary energy as that of Josh Malihabadi. Hailed as Shair-e-Inqilab (Poet of the Revolution), Malihabadi ...

Rekhta Foundation on Friday launched its own Amazon Alexa skill where poetry lovers can enjoy hundreds of Urdu poems and shers (couplets) according to poets and genres like love, sadness as well as ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes: “There are love jihads and there are love jihads. Mine turned into a labour of love.” ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...