Urdu poetry is well renowned for its rich past ... especially his connect with his mother is widely visible in the essence of the ghazals in his catalogue. His ghazals feel nothing less than ...

As students trickled into Punch’s Alley on the evening of Feb. 21, they were greeted by the wafting aroma of “Cha” and the ...

Jai Hamid Bashir's debut poetry chapbook, Desire/Halves, ends with: “Hawks take back the air— / and fill fevered throats with mother’s milk. Ma says drink / this in Urdu. I understand. Keep this ...

Faiz, born to a well-to-do and literature-loving family had a knack for poetry and had devoured a vast share of Persian, Urdu and English classics while he was still a teenager. Teachers like ...

Our Chandigarh had its share of poets and there had been lyrical poets of the fame of Shiv Kumar Batalvi writing in Punjabi and Prem Warbortoni penning ghazals in Urdu ... son to my mother and ...