The curious case of literary censorship in Urdu with special emphasis on the oeuvre of Mir Taqi Mir, one of the greatest ...

Marked by a novel approach and presentation, Anisur Rahman’s ‘Essential Ghalib’ features 200 of the great poet’s verses in ...

With her short story collection Heart Lamp being longlisted for the International Booker Prize this year,Banu Mushtaq has ...

Art historian and curator Seema Bhalla explores the journey of courtesans in India in this book of essays, dispelling myths ...

A ‘Book Street’ could become a space for active intellectual engagement in Lahore.

ON International Women’s Day, let us remember a woman writer of Urdu who could not even mention her real name in her writings. Very few knew that the real name of Mrs Abdul Qadir, once a well-known ...

This story is of Bholaram Tyagi's family of Agra, Uttar Pradesh. Pooja of this family scored 676 out of 720 marks in the NEET ...

Extracted with permission from Akashvani: A Century of Stories from All India Radio, Vikrant Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni, HarperCollins Publishers India.

The book captures his collection of vintage advertisements, postcards, trade cards, maps, coins, matchboxes, stereographs, ...

When my great-uncle died last fall, the timing amid attacks on our sovereignty struck us as meaningful. There could hardly be ...

In celebration of Kuwait’s 64th National Day and 34th Liberation Day, Radio Kuwait Urdu Service hosted a special interview with internationally certified writer and record holder Mahammad Sami Shaik.