Pakeezah (1972) is a nostalgic journey into a bygone India of thumris, shayari, and Nawabi grace. The film stars Meena Kumari ...

Tune into this podcast to know how the culture of poetry and performance art is flourishing in Melbourne, with South Asian ...

Gone are the days when people would send love letters to each other or serenade each other with poetry or shayari. With love stories blossoming on Whatsapp and Instagram, nobody has the time to write ...

The Shankar-Shad Mushaira is an emotion, a jazbaat and a gathering of hearts bound by the love of poetry. For those who hold Urdu Shayari close to their hearts, this is an evening not to be missed.

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M.

Urdu Culture London invites you to an Urdu Shayari poetry masterclass on the works of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (on the occasion of his birthday month). The masterclass consists of interactive conversations and ...

Former PM Manmohan Singh and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj's urdu poetry battles made for some of the most viewed parliamentary debates on social media. The world recognises late former prime minister ...

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, known as the architect of India's economic reforms and for his interest in Urdu poetry, passed away after prolonged illness. He often engaged in poetic ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes ... Jalil’s labour of love consists of using shayari aphoristically, of taking ...

“Natural Shayari, as a movement, sought to redeem Urdu poetry from the abstract exercise of metaphysical contemplation and artificial metaphors,” she explained. This approach aimed to ground poetry in ...