Dilkashi, Uns, Mohabbat, Aqeeda, Ibadat, Junoon, aur Maut." These words, immortalized by Naseeruddin Shah in Dedh Ishqiya, ...

By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry. Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms. The masnavi, for example, is a long ...

Drawing on the traditions of Arabic and Persian poetry, the classical writers of the Urdu ghazal frequently employed interconnected metaphorical systems. Iqbal’s response to this garden often ...