It’s not an animal that resembles an elk and runs quickly. A ghazal is a type of poem. Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic ...

Frances W. Pritchett, a well-known critic of Urdu and professor at Columbia University, writes: “To me ghazal’s reliance on its wonderful networks of images and conventions makes it very clear that ...

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 ...

The Ghazal is a form, with its emphasis on Radif, Makta and Matla (and a sensibility that’s innate to Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry), which isn’t easy to pull off in English. Of the modern English ...

On March 16, the 53rd edition of the Shankar-Shad Mushaira took place at Modern School, Barakhamba Road in Delhi. With over 15 leading poets, the annual event that celebrates the finest Urdu poets ...

Singer and poet Minu Bakshi talks about her love for poetry, her new collection of poems in Urdu, and how every attempt at rhyming doesn’t make a ghazal. She’s from a close-knit, well-off, and ...

We got India most exciting young poets to compose original poems especially for HT Brunch. See how they put their own poetic spins on the idea of New Beginnings What is a poem? School led us to ...

Is there anywhere I won't die? Maybe a place called Guam where my body lives, drinking and singing about Guam Last night I got so tired I don't think I even had a skeleton beneath the sheets of my ...

As the elevator doors opened in the lounge of a plush five-star hotel in Dubai, Shaan emerged in smart casuals, presenting that famous toothy grin before giving his friend a warm hug. One of the ...