The 17th Karachi Literature Festival was fuelled by an unswerving, if wildly optimistic, belief in the transformative power ...

Instead, he encountered a resolute cold shoulder. Friends and fellow writers refused to meet him, mourning his silence during ...

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When people signed up to listen to actor Naseeruddin Shah recite Urdu poetry at Mumbai University’s Jashn-e-Urdu on February ...

In the clip, a woman dressed in a yellow kurta walks onto a stage, smiles confidently and recites an Urdu couplet.

To read Mir is to read into the ghazal's sorrow, longing ...

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The second day of the 10th three-day Faiz Festival at Alhamra unfolded with remarkable energy, intellectual depth and ...

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The 10th Faiz Festival kicked off at Alhamra Art Centre, The Mall, here on Friday, amidst a fairly good turnout. The ...

At first glance, Faiz Ahmad Faiz may appear distant from the hard arithmetic of today’s world—markets, balance sheets, power blocs, and economic anxiety. Yet this distance is illusory. Faiz understood ...