The traditional Chinese couplet is an artistic combination of poetry and calligraphy. A couplet, as the Chinese – yinglian or duilian – for this duo implies, is composed of a pair (fu) of antithetical ...

Mirza Ghalib once said this about Meer Taqi Meer, another renowned poet of his time: “Reekhta kay tumhi ustaad nahi ho Ghalib, Kehte hain agle zamane me koi Mir bhi tha. “(You are not the only master ...

In “2pac couplets,” Oakland native Chinaka Hodge pays homage to one of her literary heroes. Tupac Shakur, victim of an unsolved shooting in 1996, was a rapper, singer, actor, poet and activist.

You can make a novel out of just about anything these days: recipes, PowerPoint slides, e-mails, text messages. Still, not many novelists have turned to rhyming couplets. The novel is an expansive, ...

As residents across China are handwriting festive couplets and the character fu (fortune) to ring in the Chinese New Year, new content and creative designs have breathed new life into the tradition as ...

That is the beauty of Ghalib's massive literary work - it is so vast and beautiful that one can't help but use it in their favour to woo their beloved and he is one of the most quotable Urdu poets ...

SOME 50 years ago, a publisher in India began publishing selections from Urdu poetry. Each selection consisted of 100 best couplets of an individual poet. Many such selections were published and it ...