‘Darkness has spread, prudence is lost’: Read Urdu poet Zehra Nigah’s poems in translation

Zehra Nigah Rakhshanda Jalil

· Nov 15, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘An act of dancing in chains’: Ranjit Hoskote on the ‘luxury of interpretation’ in translation

Tansy Troy

· Sep 01, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘You’re a poet, don’t be silent’: Ranjit Hoskote translates ‘god of poetry’ Mir Taqi Mir from Urdu

Mir Taqi Mir Ranjit Hoskote

· Aug 23, 2024 · 01:30 pm

How men depict women’s attire such as the aanchal, the angiya, or the dupatta in Urdu poetry

Rakhshanda Jalil

· May 23, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Poetry picks: Read Ishrat Afreen’s feminist Urdu poetry in translation

Ishrat Afreen Hitesh Gupta Aadil

· Jan 30, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the two winning poems

Scroll Staff

· Dec 10, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Embarking on the divine: On translating the Urdu poet Jaun Elia

Ammar Aziz

· Sep 03, 2023 · 03:30 pm

‘Tired of living and angry with death’: Mir Taqi Mir’s Urdu verses from the Murty Classical Library

Mir Taqi Mir Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

· Aug 22, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Why do young readers and social media find Jaun Elia's poetry so relevant today?

Ammar Aziz

· May 21, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Where’s that book of Urdu poetry when the occasion needs a sher? At last we have one

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

· Apr 17, 2022 · 12:30 pm

How the Partition contributed to the ‘queerness’ of Urdu poetry to make it non-normative

Priya Satia

· Jul 26, 2021 · 08:30 am

Celebrating Kishwar Naheed and eight decades of poetry and rebellion

Naazir Mahmood, Dawn.com

· Jun 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How did the Indian Muslim identity express itself through poetry before Independence?

Ali Khan Mahmudabad

· Feb 13, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘But now these cruel times have almost run their course’: Eight poems for 2020 by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

· Jan 05, 2020 · 07:30 am

How do you select and translate Urdu ghazals by 65 poets written over 500 years? Ask Anisur Rahman

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Mar 31, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘This border that drinks blood and spits sparks’: Voices of Urdu poets on war and peace

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Mar 08, 2019 · 12:30 pm

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