WHAT makes a great verse? Is it theme, philosophy, imagery, precision, words or emotions? All of them, it seems. But there can hardly be any consensus about the ingredients of a great poem and ...

The Chaska Community Center was alive with activity Saturday afternoon and evening, with a packed indoor water park and meeting rooms overflowing with people of all colors and concerns. Inside the ...

ABOUT two decades ago, this writer came across an elderly English couple at a hotel in Swat. We seemed to have already struck up a friendship and sat down to have a conversation over dinner the next ...

Poetic wit: Ghalib was the rare great poet who could laugh at himself, Painting by Shubnum Gill/Flickr.com/photos/shubnumgill Ghalib announced he would give up all ...

‘Seher Hone Tak’ enthralled the audience as vocalist Gayatri Dhavale presented ghazals, Neerja Apte read the shayari and Aboli Thatte interpreted the poems through Kathak, at Chitnavis Centre, Civil ...

Dr Zubair Farooq, a UAE national, is a well-known name in Indian and Pakistani literary circles for his love for Urdu poetry. A dermatologist and venereologist by profession, Dr Zubair has authored ...

Mirza Ghalib is one of the most popular and well-known Urdu poets of all times. Mirza Ghalib is probably the best-known Mughal era poets of all times. His poems are celebrated for the poignant and ...

Uski baaton mein mera dil aa gaya, Ab toh woh taa-umr dhokha khayega... This couplet embedded in one of the poems embodies how poet-singer Minu Bakshi casts a spell on the reader through her latest ...

Dastan-e-Dilli is an Urdu poem by Adnan Mughal, traversing the diverse history of the city right from the days of the Delhi Sultanate to the current government. This is the first video in a new series ...

Jammu: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday released two books of Urdu Poetry titled "Dhoop Chhaon" and "Main ...