Sawalia Nishaan (سوالیہ نشان — “question mark”) is a home for Urdu literature on the internet: a place to write, read, share and celebrate poetry, prose and the people who love them.
What you can do here
- Publish ghazals, nazms, ashaar, stories, essays, lyrics and scripts in beautiful Nastaliq — or in Roman Urdu and English.
- Follow poets, topics and literary forms, and build a home feed around what moves you.
- Send daad — the mushaira tradition of openly praising a writer — with reactions like واہ and مکرر, or leave a note on their profile.
- Message fellow writers, join mehfils (communities) and take part in focused conversations.
What we believe
- New voices deserve an audience. Our feeds weigh genuine engagement, not follower counts alone.
- Credit matters. Every work records who wrote it, and quoted or translated work must name the original author.
- Kindness is the default. There are no public downvotes; criticism is welcome when it helps the writer grow.
29 September 2026