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Urdu Poetry

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