MusHaira.org offers Urdu poetry, papers, and audio
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Mehfil-e-Mushaira --- Home of Urdu audio poetry
Description
About the Site
Mehfil-e-Mushaira is a non-profit Web site dedicated to Urdu poetry. It was created on May 25, 1998, launched on xoom.com, and is the first site in the world to present Urdu poetry from mushairas (poetry readings) on the Web. It acquired the domain name, mushaira.org, on April 20, 1999. The site contains audio clips of Urdu poetry recited by poets themselves in various mushairas held in Pakistan, India, the Middle East, Canada and the United States. The audio files are in RealAudio format.
Other sections on Mehfil-e-Mushaira include a relatively large collection of our readers poetry. It's a moderated forum and there is a certain criteria for inclusion in this section.
Mehfil-e-Mushaira has won many awards. It has been among the Top 10 Sites picked by the Internet magazine Spider (from the publishers of The Dawn newspaper), featured as a TOPP Pakistani Site on The Official Pakistan Page, has been featured as Site of the Day on pakistane.com, included in Webivore Search System, and awarded 2000-2001 Golden Web Award.
