Renowned literary figure Amjad Islam Amjad in a recent live session with Tajdar Zaidi of Qissa Khwaan fame discussed the schism in Urdu poetry following the partition of the Sub-Continent. According ...

Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

Prose poetry is a literary form that combines elements of prose and poetry to create a unique narrative voice and style. It appears as standard prose, without line breaks, but utilizes poetic devices ...

Ishrat Afreen is one of the five most influential writers of the feminist movement in Urdu literature and is counted amongst the most renowned poets in Pakistan. She has won numerous awards, and her ...

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” These are the famous words by the English Romantic era poet William Wordsworth.

Her first poetry collection, Khushbu, published in 1976, brought her immediate recognition at both national and international ...

We are living in times when “Dadis (grandmas) of Shaheen Bagh” daily shatter all manner of glass ceilings and barriers, yet some stereotypes refuse to go away. Take the case of women poets in Urdu.

ANYONE who has seen Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif reciting “main nahin maanta, main nahin maanta (I do not accept, I do not accept)” in a TV footage of his rally some time back may know the ...