Shafey Kidwai, Bilingual critic, reviewer, translator and expert on Urdu journalism Notwithstanding widespread adulation for the creative dexterity of writers like Meer, Ghalib, Premchand, Manto, ...

Local poets have always talked about Lahore in their poetry — be it Urdu or Persian or Punjabi poetry — almost always lovingly. Lahore’s portrayal in poetry enables us to see the city in a ...

Four incredibly strong women, all with a shared ability – like most of us – to be moved to tears by a line of poetry ... for all the wrong things for a very long time, and then one day ...

Discover some surprising facts about Urdu, including how much it has in common with other languages. Also available in Urdu with audio.

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Galway County Council’s mobile library—a huge lumbering vehicle—travelled around the county to small towns and villages and parked up outside our primary school every Wednesday afternoon.

Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page. He explores what tone and timbre can bring to poems when performing or ...

Influencer Molly-Mae Hague has spoken about her "very sad" recent split with her fiance, professional boxer Tommy Fury, but added it "doesn't feel right" to talk publicly about the reasons behind it.

Bridget Jones's Diary star Hugh Grant has called the upcoming film "very, very sad". The actor has reprised his iconic role as Daniel Cleaver in the fourth instalment of the franchise, which will ...