Mellifluous Mohammed Rafi once sang -‘Divaso judai na jay chhe ae jasey jaroor milan sudhi.’ Few know that these lyrics were penned by a Surti ghazalkaar- Abdul Gani Dahiwala. The Persian form of ...

In July 1972, when former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfeqar Ali Bhutto came to India to sign the landmark Simla Agreement on ...

With the passing of Dr Bashir Badr at 91, Indian literature loses one of the last towering figures of the modern Urdu ghazal ...

An alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University, Bashir Badr authored several books of ghazals and literary criticism of the form.

Anisur Rahman, currently senior advisor to the Rekhta Foundation, and formerly professor and head of English at Jamia Millia Islamia University, is the author of numerous books and essays on ...

As much as an expression of emotions and ideas, poetry is also a manifestation of the culture, tradition and socio-political conditions of a society. Language, the cloak of poetry, is itself deeply ...

The term homosexual was coined in 19 th century Europe but its categorisation for the people in the Indian subcontinent had existed long before. The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) ...

THE word ghazal is derived from an Arabic root and it means ‘to talk amorously to women’. According to some scholars, ghazal also means ‘a doleful cry of pain uttered by a deer when surrounded by ...

A session on 'Urdu Ghazal New Formations' was held at the 14th International Urdu Conference at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi, which was moderated by Nasira Zuberi. On this occasion, Ambreen ...

The Urdu scholar and translator discusses Ghalib, literary culture, declining Urdu literacy in Indian universities, and the ...