to the Roshanara club in Delhi where in the words of poet Gulzar, ‘the elders would gather every morning and discuss the headlines in great detail’ the Urdu newspaper was a thread that sutured ...

was a famous Urdu poet. I grew up writing his shayari and ghazals. I had a tough childhood. I started working at 13 to support my family. I’ve been a spot boy, a clap boy and even a child actor ...

My father, Abdul Hameed ‘Nerang’ Bazmee, was a famous Urdu poet. I grew up writing his shayari and ghazals ... Anand for his storytelling. I love Gulzar saab’s and Bimal Roy’s simplicity ...

But, despite her growing repertoire in English, the love for Urdu-Hindustani poetry never left. “While I wrote professionally in English, I was always writing poetry in Hindustani for myself. Besides ...

Rahmat, poet-singer Minu Bakshi stirs emotions of love and longing. She tells HTCity how Urdu poetry is still relevant in Gen ...

Thirty-five years after Uttar Pradesh (UP) adopted Urdu as its second official language, chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s speech in the state assembly has revived the contentious issue over the ...

Marked by a novel approach and presentation, Anisur Rahman’s ‘Essential Ghalib’ features 200 of the great poet’s verses in ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

The simplicity of his life informed his work. Ascending to fame at a time when Anglo-American poetry was growing increasingly difficult and obscure, Frost set himself apart. A lyric poet inspired ...

But maybe it was not science fiction but poetry, the art of intimations and intuitions, that enabled some writers to describe what had not yet happened. Then again, what we think of as intuition ...