Poetry

In literature and associated narratives, females often carry the otherness and foreignness in society. The poetry of Mascha Kaléko is...

When legendary songwriter Hasrat Jaipuri’s only daughter Kishwar in Mumbai accepted a marriage proposal from across the border in Pakistan,...

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most important events – and certainly the last...

Today, the 10th of February 2023, marks the 36th death anniversary of Sadequain Amrohi, the legendary poet, painter and calligrapher....

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood,” said Friedrich Nietzsche. Jaun Elia’s case is...

When the Prophet of Islam (peace and blessings on him) returned to Makkah at the head of a large victorious...

In the year 2017, I bought Letters to a Young Poet during travel to Lahore for work. I was not...

Recently, the 225th birth anniversary of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, the greatest of classical modern Urdu poets, was celebrated in...

Nearly two centuries have passed since John Keats, one of the most celebrated lyrical poets of English literature, died of...

Sylvia Plath questioned and wrote the most beautiful poetry, writer Iffat Navaid wrote her biography marveling on her husband's body-mind...

Lahore saw its musicians and singers come together to raise funds for flood victims at a mehfil organised and hosted...

Oh Mullah, our hair locks turn into Flags You can’t hide yourselves behind the hijab of your beards We’ve revolted...

Many moons ago, I received Intimations of Ghalib, a slim volume of translations of the timeless verse by the great...

Introduction Iss waqt yun lagta hai ke kuchh bhi nahi hai, mehtaab na sooraj, na andhera na sawera are some...

In Lahore, the city of saints, one of the most revered Sufi-poets is Shah Hussain, whose short poems in the...

It is rare to come across a writer who is so devoted to the written word that she cares far...

Poetry often bypasses the conventions of connotation, flexes the rigidity of common contextual structures and eventually reinvigorates language itself by...

It is a daunting task to draw a circle around Ejaz Rahim’s latest book of English poetry. Gardens of Secrets...

Punjab has a rich literary tradition in Sufi poetry. The Punjabi language has a uniquely candid way to express the...

‘Majrooh, likh rahe hain vo ahl-e-vafaa ke naam Hum bhi khade hue hain gunahgaar ki tarah (Majrooh, the names of...

Anjum Altaf is a respected Pakistani academic who has delved deep into the poetry of the 19th-century Urdu poet Asadullah...

The full Urdu text of Ishrat Afreen’s moving new poem Azadaran-e-Hussain Ke Naam (To the Mourners of Hussain) is as...

Love is the most powerful driving force on the planet. It compels the human being to do what otherwise would...

Hamen khabar hai ke hum hain charagh-e-akhir-e-shab Hamare baad andhera nahi ujala hai (We know that we are the lamp...

Sahir Ludhianvi made his place among Urdu Progressive poets with Taj Mahal, where for the first time the past was...

Before he was Sahir Ludhianvi, Abdul Hai (1921-80) was born in a family of Punjabi landowners a hundred years ago...