Her subsequent collections, including 'Sad Barg' (One Hundred Leaves), 'Khood-Qalami' (Self-Talk), and 'Inkaar' (Denial) further solidified her status as a distinguished Urdu poet. The complete works ...

The 30th death anniversary of poetess Parveen Shakir was observed on Thursday. Parveen Shakir started writing at a very young age. She wrote both prose and poetry, contributed columns in Urdu ...

SAN JOSE – Shakir Mukhamadullin’s upper-body injury will keep him out of the San Jose Sharks’ final six games of the season and any playoff run the San Jose Barracuda might begin later this ...

SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks have been getting important contributions from forward Collin Graf and defenseman Shakir Mukhamadullin in recent games, and both appear to be on track to become ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

In India, Urdu remains an official language in several states and continues to thrive in cultural, literary, and cinematic domains ...

The low-poly truck is still not all it’s cracked up to be. Umar Shakir is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT ...

This story has been updated. Another image has been added. For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did not exist.

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

At the opening ceremony, legendary singer, Abida Parveen, performed and her fans were very happy about it. However, a few Pakistani netizens have claimed that maybe the veteran singer was told to ...

Born in 1954 in Gujarat, Parveen Babi was among the finest actresses Indian cinema has ever seen. Even two decades after her passing, she continues to make headlines- whether for her iconic films ...

In a 2023 interview, the New York Times asked two-time U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith to name poets she had gained a greater appreciation for over the course of her career. Smith named Essex ...