TORONTO: Famous Urdu poet and song writer Himayat Ali Shair passed away on Tuesday in Toronto after a prolonged illness. Ninety-three-year-old Shair was born on 14th July 1926 in India’s Aurangabad ...

Born in Aurangabad in the Deccan region of India, living most of his life in Karachi and Hyderabad and then dying in Toronto, Canada — in his 93 years of life Himayat Ali Shair saw a world completely ...

“Urdu is a nation unto itself… Wherever Urdu goes, it clasps people in a bear hug. It becomes a tradition unto itself. For Urdu is, after all, the lingua franca of a culture,” wrote Gulzar in the ...

KARACHI: Scholars at a condolence reference held at the Urdu Dictionary Board on Thursday recalled the splendid literary works of famous Urdu poet Himayat Ali Shair and underlined the importance of ...

URDU LITERARY magazine Shair has brought out a special issue featuring eminent Urdu satirist Dr Shafiqua Farhat. Apart from her own selected writings, the issue includes articles by litterateurs on ...

The title of The Hoshruba Repertory and Art for Causes’ Hindustani theatre production, Main Pal Do Pal Ka Shair Hoon, borrows the opening phrase from the popular song from Kabhi Kabhie. The play is a ...