Though I rarely watch TV, when I do, the idiot box does offer me some food for thought. I don`t mean the monster that devours your most precious time has become so sophisticated that it can actually ...

In a tradition that has been going strong since 1989, the Sakinan e Shahr e Quaid (SSQ) held a mushaira on March 22 at Karachi’s Expo Centre. The event, which took a two-year hiatus owing to the ...

The timeless River Thames bore witness to a historic moment in Urdu literary history as Haraval International brought Lahore’s poetic soul to London with its inaugural Jashn-e-London International ...

KARACHI: The 25th Aalmi Mushaira is all set to take place this evening at the Karachi Expo Centre. This was announced at a press briefing at the Karachi Press Club Tuesday evening. This is going to be ...

Dr Zeenat Kaifi performing at the mushaira (Shalini Maheshwari/BCCL) Celebrating International Women’s Day, a unique women poets’ mushaira was organised by Rajasthan Urdu Academy at Ravindra Manch in ...

India, the land of Mirza Ghalib and Amir Khusro, is looking for a suitable heir to preserve and expand its vast treasure of Sufi poetry, couplets, songs, and mushairas or public recitals of Urdu ...

One of South Asia's major literary traditions comes to life in New York this Saturday, April 30, when Asia Society, in collaboration with Poets House and City Lore, hosts a mushaira, a group reading ...

The novel coronavirus pandemic may have forced people to stay apart but digital platforms and social media are helping them to stay connected. People are observing physical distancing but they are ...

Vashi: Not many in the mushaira congregation expected that she would make it to the venue. But yesteryear's actor and playback singer Salma Agha kept her promise and made it to Navi Mumbai. Salma ...

If you think about it, Mirza Ghalib as an amateur detective who solves domestic crimes—from finding out who is stealing a cousin’s prize sheep to helping put out simmering tensions in Shahjahanabad, ...