Shiva's body is "like a glittering sapphire", he is "knowledge, nectar, action", the "Granter of Salvation": these encomiums ...

Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, saw the Bangla language movement in 1952 against the imposition of Urdu by Pakistan. Five ...

KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday called for making the Pakistan Navy further stronger in order to protect the ...

Whether you’re looking to soothe your mind, ignite your inner rebel or make your heart sing, poetry offers something for every day and every mood. As Dylan Thomas said, “poetry is what in a poem makes ...

It could be the tradition of poetry itself; how, as Aijaz Ahmad notes, “the movement in Urdu poetry is always away from concreteness. Meaning is not expressed or stated; it is signified… [with an] ...

As we have seen, he participated fully in the social life of Urdu poetry. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine Urdu poetry without a social life, given the centrality of the mushā‘ira and the ...

1997), but both had much benefitted from Saksena’s work and many of the verses reproduced by them as samples of Urdu poetry were simply taken from Saksena’s work. Since by ‘Indo-European ...