IT is generally assumed that words borrowed from the English language or other European languages entered the Urdu language post-1857, the year in which the British completely took over and the last ...

Rekhta Foundation on Friday launched its own Amazon Alexa skill where poetry lovers can enjoy hundreds of Urdu poems and shers (couplets) according to poets and genres like love, sadness as well as ...

Fumbling with words that rhyme with ‘unity’ and setting them to the rhyme and meter of Urdu poetry, 28-year old Afsar Dabeeri, grandson of Mirza Dabeer (1803-1875) drew inspiration in his ...