Urdu is a hybrid language that is based on the spoken languages of Northern India with a generous overlay of Arabic and Persian words. ‘Urdu’ is a Turkish word, which means a camp. When Muslims from ...

And the entire theological universe that made his poetry possible, that gave it its specific gravity and daring and precision ...

Urdu poetry legend Bashir Badr has passed away at 91 in Bhopal. From “Kuch to majbooriyan rahi hongi” to “Ujale apni yaadon ke”, his words shaped generations of readers and lovers of shayari ...

With the passing of Dr Bashir Badr at 91, Indian literature loses one of the last towering figures of the modern Urdu ghazal ...

Celebrated Urdu poet Bashir Badr passed away at the age of 91 in Bhopal after a prolonged illness. Known for his timeless ...

HYDERABAD: Behta Huva Naghma, a collection of poems in Urdu written by State Council for Cultural Affairs chairman and MP Dr C Narayana Reddy was released here on Tuesday by Rajya Sabha deputy ...

Bashir Badr, one of the most celebrated voices in Urdu literature, passed away at the age of 91, leaving behind a timeless legacy of poetry, ghazals, and shayari that touched millions across ...

A few months ago, at the launch of a book of Urdu poems—Hukm E Safar Diya Tha Kyon by Shantiveer Kaul—a poet in his mid-60s said he rarely got a chance to attend such events now because “ab us peedhi ...

Every metropolis seems to have been enshrined into two images. The first one is created out of big city’s old, grandiose buildings, citadels, forts, tombs, mosques, churches, gardens, roads, rivers ...