Delhi, the timeless heart of India, has long enchanted poets with its layered heritage, vibrant culture, and bustling streets ...

Over 30 years after Habib Jalib’s death, 'Dastoor' remains a protest anthem. In 2019, it resurfaced during anti-CAA ...

Rahmat, poet-singer Minu Bakshi stirs emotions of love and longing. She tells HTCity how Urdu poetry is still relevant in Gen ...

Tanveer Anjum’s poetry challenges the boundaries of form and language, offering a bold new feminist poetic praxis.

Marked by a novel approach and presentation, Anisur Rahman’s ‘Essential Ghalib’ features 200 of the great poet’s verses in ...

The curious case of literary censorship in Urdu with special emphasis on the oeuvre of Mir Taqi Mir, one of the greatest ...

We’re a country that celebrates the right of each and every person to be who they want to be, to pray as they pray and love whom they love. We’re a country that will always defend a woman’s right to ...

But K Love couldn’t ignore her sense of responsibility toward them. “I knew very young that I would teach. I assumed I would become a school teacher, but poetry was the wild card that popped up.

But, despite her growing repertoire in English, the love for Urdu-Hindustani poetry never left. “While I wrote professionally in English, I was always writing poetry in Hindustani for myself. Besides ...

The focus of the poetry is on equality and love for the divine. But this does not stop many Sikh leaders from aligning with the homophobic policies seen amongst conservative Abrahamic faiths.

Grace Jackson has revealed a devastating unaired reaction to her screenshot drama with Olivia Hawkins on Love Island All Stars ... claim that she had seen text messages of Grace saying she ...