By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry. Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms. The masnavi, for example, is a long ...

Drawing on the traditions of Arabic and Persian poetry, the classical writers of the Urdu ghazal frequently employed interconnected metaphorical systems. Iqbal’s response to this garden often ...

New Delhi: In recent years, 79-year-old screenwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar has taken up the mantle of a language activist. Many would mistakenly say he is an advocate of Urdu. But actually, he ...

Of course, there are a few errors in Iqbal’s Urdu poetry when it comes to lexical or syntactical analysis, but these errors make a very tiny part of his works and are negligible as they do not ...