When the sky plays chess, you, me, we’re all chessmen. Like every beginner, it enjoys breaking the pieces. Poets, like sovereigns, can suffer under the grandiloquent titles thrust upon them by their ...

Arts Council of Pakistan commemorated the enduring legacy of Mir Taqi Mir with a literary event titled "Mir Sahib's Poetry and Our Era" at Haseena Moin Hall. The session was presided over by the ...

[Roaming in the street, people will keep reciting the verses composed in Rekhta/ These, my words, are destined to last for long] Many a time poetry brushes against prophesy, the poet a sage and ...

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810) was not only Urdu's first great poet but also the most prolific one with around 13,500 couplets to his name. He is credited with giving shape and ...

BENGALURU: Rarely does a book launch have the simplicity or design to create an atmosphere that captivates the audience with soulful lyrical performances and Urdu shayari. A confluence of artistes and ...

A two-day international seminar was organised by the department of Urdu, Aligarh Muslim University here at AMU on Saturday and Sunday to mark the 300th birth anniversary of renowned Urdu poet, Mir ...

The Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu Hind organized the exhibition in collaboration with the Urdu Ghar and the Noor Microfilm Center from January 11 to 17. The opening ceremony of the exhibition was attended by ...

NISHTER is a Persian word and it means a lancet, a surgical knife or blade. The 72 nishters or lancets, or 72 heart-pricking couplets, of Mir Taqi Mir was the mantra in Urdu criticism ever since ...

MUMBAI – Whenever lyricists of Bollywood or Lollywood seemed stuck for the beginning of a song, they could always turn to Mir. One of his most famous ghazals “Patta patta boota boota haal hamare jaane ...

Whenever lyricists of Bollywood or Lollywood seemed stuck for the beginning of a song, they could always turn to Mir. One of his most famous ghazals 'Patta patta boota boota haal hamare jaane hain' ...

Readers know Ranjit Hoskote the poet, art historian, curator, essayist, translator, speaker – but how many of those who admire his prolific and sensitive writing would have him down as the teller of ...