The 57th edition underscores the Mushaira’s expanding reach and enduring relevance, bringing together poets from across the country. Headlining the evening are two of the most revered figures in Urdu ...

India, the land of Mirza Ghalib and Amir Khusro, is looking for a suitable heir to preserve and expand its vast treasure of Sufi poetry, couplets, songs, and mushairas or public recitals of Urdu ...

Headlined by famed poets Wasim Barelvi and Javed Akhtar, the famed mushaira has continued to remind listeners that poetry can bridge the deepest divides ...

Vijayawada: As part of the Andhra Pradesh Festival, a grand Kavi Sammelan–Mushaira featuring three languages—Telugu, Urdu, ...

Held in the shadow of global tensions, stalwarts of Urdu shayari lit up the evening at the 57th Shankar-Shad Mushaira in ...

In a tradition that has been going strong since 1989, the Sakinan e Shahr e Quaid (SSQ) held a mushaira on March 22 at Karachi’s Expo Centre. The event, which took a two-year hiatus owing to the ...

An International ‘Eid Milan Mushaira’ was organised by the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) over the weekend, a spokesperson shared on Sunday. The mushaira was presided over by Dr Waheed Ahmed from ...

Though I rarely watch TV, when I do, the idiot box does offer me some food for thought. I don`t mean the monster that devours your most precious time has become so sophisticated that it can actually ...

Dr Zeenat Kaifi performing at the mushaira (Shalini Maheshwari/BCCL) Celebrating International Women’s Day, a unique women poets’ mushaira was organised by Rajasthan Urdu Academy at Ravindra Manch in ...

It was a ‘mushaira’ but romance was not in the air. The poets did not sing paeans to ‘gul-o-bulbul’ nor held forth on ‘saqi-o-jaam’. Instead they waxed eloquent about water and sanitation. Perhaps, it ...