How Mirza Ghalib’s ghazals traveled to America and became a part of the country’s poetic tradition

Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia

· Feb 15, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘My mutiny is against patriarchy': Watch this young Urdu poet take on criticism of 'immodest’ women

Scroll Staff

· Jan 23, 2019 · 11:15 am

A new book shows us ways to read Shahryar’s life in his poetry, and poetry in his life

Nikhil Govind

· Oct 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Subversive in verse: How Delhi’s Urdu poets once challenged emperors and clerics

Malini Nair

· Oct 08, 2018 · 11:30 am

Saif Mahmood’s book shows us we cannot know Delhi today until we knows its poets from yesterday

Anand V Taneja

· Oct 06, 2018 · 12:30 pm

He wrote the lyrics of ‘Umrao Jaan’. Was the Urdu poet Shahryar a progressive or a modernist?

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Aug 24, 2018 · 08:30 am

Ibne Safi, unlikely combination of poet and pulp fiction writer, would have been 90 this year

Ibne Safi

· Jul 26, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Meet Imran Pratapgarhi, the rockstar poet who draws tens of thousands of fans at Urdu mushairas

Wasi Manazir

· Apr 25, 2018 · 11:30 am

How the shadow of the battle of Karbala has shaped Urdu literature

Asif Farrukhi

· Oct 23, 2017 · 10:30 pm

How Karbala has influenced writers and poets in South Asia for centuries

Suleman Akhtar

· Oct 01, 2017 · 07:30 pm

This is the book that lovers of Urdu literature needed, to understand its history

Rana Safvi

· Sep 09, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Why it is impossible to think of Urdu poetry without thinking of India’s journey to (and after) 1947

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Aug 15, 2017 · 05:30 am

Between Patriotism, Partition and Pakistan, here’s how Faiz Ahmed Faiz became a poet

Baran Farooqi

· Jun 13, 2017 · 08:30 am

From the poet of ‘We Sinful Women’, two poems for the times

Kishwar Naheed

· Sep 25, 2016 · 12:30 pm

The Carnatic vocalist who sings Urdu blues

Manish Gaekwad

· Dec 21, 2015 · 05:00 pm