For the millennials, a Jagjit Singh playlist will begin with “Koi Fariyaad” from Tum Bin. And for a generation before that, it can be “Tum Itna Jo” from Arth. The two movies might be over two decades ...

Pakistani Urdu poetry composed in the aftermath of 1947’s riots and massacres reflected shock, emotionality, and anger. But what persisted, in addition to mourning the dead and bewailing the alive, ...

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee felicitated Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali at his performance here on Tuesday evening, quoting Swami Vivekananda about tolerance. “This is the ...

Pakistani musician Arooj Aftab is no stranger to the decadence of cultural heritage in musical imagination. After all, she has used Urdu ghazals and idioms frequently in her music in the past. Her ...

PAKISTANI Urdu literature has come a long way and today it has its own peculiar mood and milieu that set it apart from what we inherited as a shared body of Urdu literature from the pre-independence ...

Colossal and widespread popularity of Urdu language despite continuous official renunciation and lukewarm response of new generation of its native speakers owes much to its most-admired verse genre ...

Mehdi Hassan, the Pakistani classical singer renowned for singing ghazal, a form of Urdu lyric verse, has died at age 84. He died on Wednesday in the port city of Karachi after a long illness, ...

Arooj Aftab sparked a debate on social media after expressing her frustration over being labelled solely as a ‘Pakistani’ or ‘Urdu’ artist. Aftab, who bagged a Grammy for her song Mohabbat (Also ...

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 ...