Bollywood film Fanaa, directed by Kunal Kohli and starring Aamir Khan and Kajol, has often been compared to the 1981 Hollywood film Eye of the ...

Urdu, a language woven into the fabric of India’s cultural and historical identity, faces growing challenges under the current Bharatiya Janata Party ...

And this is what makes the award of the Booker Prize last week to Banu Mushtaq so important. Her collection of short stories ...

Basharat Shameem It was in 1947 itself that Faiz Ahmad Faiz sensitized us about the coming dystopia that Pakistan was to be ...

A quarter of a century may have passed after his demise, but the memory of Majrooh Sultanpuri continues to pervade the Indian ...

Lucknow: The UP Sangeet Natak Akademi on Friday witnessed a mesmerising confluence of poetry, ghazal, and kathak during Bayan ...

Irshad Khan ‘Sikandar’, poet, lyricist, writer and playwright who enthralled both enthusiasts and connoisseurs alike, passed ...

(Web Desk) - Renowned Punjabi poet Tajammul Kaleem dies after a prolonged illness. He made his name among the finest ...

Listening to his stories, over and over again, kindled in her a love for the spoken word. "Later, I started listening to storytellers on YouTube," she says. Prishita stumbled into Sriti Jha's ‘The ...

Banu Mushtaq becomes the first Kannada author to win the International Booker Prize for Heart Lamp, sharing the honour with translator Deepa Bhasthi ...

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M.

Apart from his share of highs and lows, Rajiv will also be remembered for lacing his press conferences with Urdu couplets to make his point. “Kar na sakein ikraar toh koi baat nahi, meri wafa ka ...