The four designated stages inside the crowded stadium complex in the heart of the busy capital weren’t enough. So poetry lovers also took to the footpaths and the spaces in between, turning them into ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...

What’s your love language? For young people in India today, it’s literally a language: Urdu. It’s been around for at least 800 years; the 2011 census shows that India has well over 67 million Urdu ...

Born and brought up at Malerkotla in Punjab’s Sangrur district, lyricist Irshad Kamil holds a PhD in Urdu poetry. With a Filmfare award for Rockstar and recognition for films like Jab We Met, Love Aaj ...

Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s critical work on Urdu progressives and other writers is well-recognised as are her translations from Urdu. In her latest book, Love in the ...

A Delhi-based artist is attempting to revive the Urdu language through pop culture. His illustrations on mugs and T-shirts feature works of Amir Khusro, Ghalib and the like When was the last time you ...