As much as an expression of emotions and ideas, poetry is also a manifestation of the culture, tradition and socio-political conditions of a society. Language, the cloak of poetry, is itself deeply ...

LAHORE: Shadab Zeest Hashmi, the author of “Ghazal Cosmopolitan” discussed the phenomenon of transcendence of genre of ghazal into other languages, especially English, at a session “Ghazal ...

To my ears, the sound of the Urdu language and the ghazal were the most enticing when I was in my teens, even though I could not understand most of the words. I had no idea that the couplet had a form ...