TopicUrdu poetry

Topic: urdu poetry

Famous poet Akbar Allahabadi is now Akbar Prayagraj, says UP higher education panel website

Kritika Sharma - 28 December, 2021

UP Higher Education Services Commission names Syed Akbar Hussain, popular as Akbar Allahabadi, as Akbar Prayagraj on website. Names of poets Rashid Allahabadi & Tegh Allahabadi changed too.

Allama Iqbal, his two-nation theory and the ideas in his poetry that were anti-national

Faiyaz Ahmad Fyzie - 9 November, 2021

Iqbal, much like Sir Syed, never considered the Muslims of Indian origin as true Muslims.

Sahir at 100: The ‘pal do pal ka shayar’ who doesn’t fade even 41 years after his death

Unnati Sharma - 21 March, 2021

Sahir Ludhianvi would’ve been 100 this March, and his lyrics and poetry still resonate for their philosophical tinge, symbolism & social consciousness.

No one bigger than Faruqi in Urdu literature, says Dastango Himanshu Bajpai

Krishan Murari - 26 December, 2020

Faruqi, credited with restoring Dastangoi, the Urdu art of oral storytelling, passed away Thursday. He was 85.

Urdu poet Shamsur Rahman Faruqi passes away month after recovering from Covid

PTI - 25 December, 2020

The 85-year-old Padma Shri poet is credited to have revived 'Dastangoi', a 16th century Urdu oral storytelling art form.

Urdu lyricist-poet Rahat Indori passes away at 70

PTI - 11 August, 2020

Indori's career spanned over 50 years and was known for lyrics of songs in films including Munnabhai MBBS and Ishq. He was undergoing treatment for Covid but died due to a heart attack.

‘Dhoop aane do’, don’t lose hope & feed the strays: Gulzar’s lockdown message in poetry, prose

Gulzar - 22 April, 2020

Stay hopeful, and practise social distancing, says Gulzar in his new poem. Read the translation of the poem by Rakhshanda Jalil.

Verses in the time of virus: Poetry Live unites 71 quarantined poets on Instagram

Fiza Jha - 17 April, 2020

Indian Novels Collective and Mumbai bookstore Kitab Khana brought together renowned and new-generation poets together on Instagram via daily lockdown poetry sessions.

Jan Nisar Akhtar — Bollywood lyricist who was ‘poet in a real sense’

Kairvy Grewal - 18 February, 2020

On his 106th birth anniversary, ThePrint explores the life and love of Jan Nisar Akhtar.

Habib Jalib, Pakistan’s poet of dissent whose lines are now chanted on both sides of border

Sajid Ali - 28 November, 2019

Pakistani poet Habib Jalib & his poem Dastoor became widely searched keywords in India after a video of a JNU student reciting the lines went viral.

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ThePrint Team - 28 May, 2021

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Don’t let politics around Udaipur killing fool you. It proves nothing about Indian Muslims

Vir Sanghvi - 30 June, 2022

Nupur Sharma supporters to liberals, everyone must understand it's dangerous to draw too many general conclusions from the Udaipur incident.

Will US craft a new oil compact with Saudi Arabia? Joe Biden may have to eat his own words

29 June, 2022

Zubair or Udaipur – Under Modi, India has entered era of total politics

29 June, 2022

Economy

Mukesh Ambani’s daughter Isha Ambani to be named chair of Reliance retail

P. R. Sanjai - 29 June, 2022

Isha Ambani, the current director of Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd., is expected to be announced as the chair as early as Wednesday.

Topic: urdu poetry

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

Don’t let politics around Udaipur killing fool you. It proves nothing about Indian Muslims

Will US craft a new oil compact with Saudi Arabia? Joe Biden may have to eat his own words

Zubair or Udaipur – Under Modi, India has entered era of total politics

Economy

Mukesh Ambani’s daughter Isha Ambani to be named chair of Reliance retail

Defence

Almost 4,000 enrol for IAF’s Agnipath recruitment scheme on day 1 of online registrations

National Interest

With Agnipath, Modi govt’s shock & awe doctrine may have misfired a vital reform, yet again

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