Zaban-e-Urdu hai jiska naam, Woh Hindustan ki jaan hai.” The language called Urdu is the life of Hindustan. Prologue: A ...

Ma Yongbo 马永波 celebrates his birthday on the 17th July 2025. When he was born, he was called Yongbo 永波 (Forever Wave) by his ...

The Missing Prayer is a tell-tale rhythmic recital of the losses, the voids, the gaps and the simplest of the tiny things ...

Discovering open mic poetry About fifteen years ago, I read a short poem in public at an event hosted by Mahendra Kutare, ...

The new pace spearhead had dedicated his 10-wicket match haul in Birmingham to his sister who is battling cancer.

Her recent convocation address at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver was much more than a cancer-researcher's speech - it ...

Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a poet shaped by early heartbreak and political disillusionment, blended romance and revolution in his work.

Poetry: Spiritual and TerreneBy Syed Afsar Sajid1. ‘Luhu Lal Ghari: (Marsiye)’ by Iqtidar Javed2. ‘Bay Baal-o-Par’ by Prof.

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

Unlike other famous courtesans of Hindi cinema and literature, Umrao Jan’s story has been revisited time and again over the ...

The allure of Umrao Jaan is not just in its characters’ recitals; the film embodies poetry in its form. It is no wonder then, that its digitally restored re-release in the theatres has brought so much ...

Muzaffar Ali’s version featuring Rekha in the title role, begins with little Ameeran in Faizabad abducted to Lucknow to be moulded and shaped into a perfect tawaif, and ends with Umrao grown from the ...