NEW DELHI: Aspiring English poets have multiple online resources telling them how to write a sonnet, haiku or limerick but those aspiring to pen Urdu verse have just the Qaafiya Dictionary to help ...
They call it char bait, a form of instant Urdu poetry where two teams compete in rhyme. Verses are created at a second's notice on subjects as diverse as romance and politics, patriotism and rain. NEW ...
Fumbling with words that rhyme with ‘unity’ and setting them to the rhyme and meter of Urdu poetry, 28-year old Afsar Dabeeri, grandson of Mirza Dabeer (1803-1875) drew inspiration in his ...
If you want to make high-brow small talk at one of President Barack Obama’s cocktail parties, don’t bother brushing up your Shakespeare. Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in ...
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