A host of poets from different parts of the state recited poetry in Odia, Hindi and Urdu languages in a unique mushaira held at the conference hall in Sanskruti Bhavan today. Mubaraq Hussein Salamat’s ...
His love for the language dates back to the 1970s when he went to Pakistan to study; he considers the country his second home Dr Zubair Farooq, a UAE national, is a well-known name in Indian and ...
Poetry plays a vital role in promoting unity, harmony and cultural exchange in a multilingual nation like India”, stated ...
A few months ago, at the launch of a book of Urdu poems—Hukm E Safar Diya Tha Kyon by Shantiveer Kaul—a poet in his mid-60s said he rarely got a chance to attend such events now because “ab us peedhi ...
Dr Zubair Farooq, a UAE national, is a well-known name in Indian and Pakistani literary circles for his love for Urdu poetry. A dermatologist and venereologist by profession, Dr Zubair has authored ...
Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s critical work on Urdu progressives and other writers is well-recognised as are her translations from Urdu. In her latest book, Love in the ...
There are two conflicting views about the transportation of poetical compositions from one language to another. Robert Frost said “poetry is what gets lost in translation.” To this, came the retort, ...
Canonised as one of Urdu’s greatest poets, Mir Muhammad Taqi “Mir” of Delhi, who died in 1810, also authored a collection of verse in Persian. He composed verse in genres other than the ghazal, in ...
‘Seher Hone Tak’ enthralled the audience as vocalist Gayatri Dhavale presented ghazals, Neerja Apte read the shayari and Aboli Thatte interpreted the poems through Kathak, at Chitnavis Centre, Civil ...
Dr Zubair Farooq, a UAE national, is a well-known name in Indian and Pakistani literary circles for his love for Urdu poetry. A dermatologist and venereologist by profession, Dr Zubair has authored ...