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 ...
Asked the way he looked at poetry, Akhtar said it is the voice of society, the voice of the silent person.
The Rekhta Foundation began as a digital archive. It has now evolved into a larger ecosystem, using technology and ...