Translating poetry is an artistic endeavor in its own right, because something that complex necessitates creating new meaning.

Note: This story was originally published in October 2022 as part of Outlook issue 'Recasting Shiva'. It is being replugged on World Poetry Day 2023 as Outlook revisits the power of poetry in a world ...

A vibrant celebration of Urdu literature took place in Karachi, where the 31st International Mushaira brought together prominent poets from Pakistan and abroad at the Expo Centre. Organised by ...

The audience cheered and clapped entreating the poets for an encore. At the 56th edition of Bazm-e-Mushaira in the national capital last month, the energy and the evocation of emotions did well to ...

in the late 1960’s. Izhar-ul-Haq was deeply moved by Aftab Ahmad Shah’s wondrous intelligence, his mercurial temperament, and his imperviousness to worldliness. He proceeds to review the latter’s ...

Pakistan is often described as a poetic nation, and not without reason. Urdu poetry circulates with ease across class, region, and generation. Verses are memorised, quoted, sung, reposted, and ...

Eminent Urdu writer Shamim Tariq on Wednesday said that Firaq Gorakhpuri is the Mir of modern Urdu poetry. Tariq was speaking at the opening session of the two-day national seminar “Firaq Gorakhpuri: ...

IT was Ram Babu Saksena (1896-1957) who first carried out extensive research on European poets of Urdu. It took him some 10 years to sift through all the relevant works and manuscripts and his book ...

Ramu Kharel in Karachi on his way for a tv interview about his emergency medicine work in Nepal in which he fluently recited Urdu poetry. Photos: ABDULLAH ZAHID/SAPAN NEWS On a usual bustling March ...

Unlike poet Josh Malihabadi, who was conferred the Padma Bhushan, Jaun Elia didn’t gain recognition in India or Pakistan.