When Urdu spoke of a nation

Long confined in popular imagination to the delicate terrains of love and longing, Urdu poetry has often been misread as inward-looking, steeped in intimacy yet distant from the urgencies of the world ...
The New York Times

Where Romantic Poetry in a Fading Language Draws Stadium Crowds

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...