While core acts of devotion take center stage, qasidas (Islamic odes) and devotional poetry serve as powerful complements, enriching the experience of Ramadan and deepening one’s spiritual reflections ...

On World Poetry Day, remembering Nazir Kazmi, one of modern Urdu ghazal’s founders.

Sharjeel Imam, a PhD scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), completed five years behind bars. Meanwhile, his bail ...

Many people, even avid readers, find themselves intimidated by reading or trying to write poetry. But, perhaps through a line ...

Rahmat, poet-singer Minu Bakshi stirs emotions of love and longing. She tells HTCity how Urdu poetry is still relevant in Gen ...

Tanveer Anjum’s poetry challenges the boundaries of form and language, offering a bold new feminist poetic praxis.

Marked by a novel approach and presentation, Anisur Rahman’s ‘Essential Ghalib’ features 200 of the great poet’s verses in ...

Ghazal Alagh, co-founder of Mamaearth, shared her journey of balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship on Instagram for International Women’s Day. She reflected on her early struggles, self-doubt, and ...

Father Jalal Ghazal said he woke one morning in January to a loud sound and ran outside to find streams of red liquid. He immediately feared the kind of targeted killing that occurred during the ...

Authorities in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State have released activist Dut Kuot Akok on bail, weeks after his arrest in mid-January. Kuot was detained by the National Security’s ...

On Friday, Jennifer Love Hewitt marked her 46th birthday by posting makeup-free and filter-free selfies on Instagram with a lengthy caption about the beginning of 2025. “It’s been a hard start ...

At least 2,600 South Sudanese returnees have arrived in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State from various states in the war-torn Sudan since January according to security and humanitarian officials.