Writing a couplet can be tough, But when you work with friends, it's not so rough. On Monday, NPR's Morning Edition asked listeners and readers to share poems about the teams in their lives — both on ...

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 ...

Maggie Millner’s first book, “Couplets,” breathes new life into an old form to tell the story of a romance that catches its heroine off guard. By Adrienne Raphel When you purchase an independently ...

To be true, this is a two-and-a-half-decade old tradition started in the 1990s by Manmohan Singh, the former Prime Minister, when he was serving India as its finance minister. And, hope that the ...

Spring Festival Couplet (春è "), also known as Door Couplet, symbolizes the Chinese great expectation for the future. It is one of Spring Festival Mascots and a special literary form of Chinese ...

It is believed that the earliest chunlian couplet found in China was written on a page of the Dunhuang Manuscripts, a cache of documents previously sealed in one of the Mogao Caves in northwestern ...

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 ...

Gulzar believes that writing is a full-time job and draws much of his inspiration from the Space. Having spent over 5 decades writing in various forms in the Hindi film industry, publishing books and ...

A calligrapher writes Spring Festival couplets in Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Jan 2. The activity, launched by CCTV (China Central Television), is currently in its fourth session and ...