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

When I started working on translations a long time ago, one of my goals was to bring rural India into the fold.’ ...

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The court upheld the use of Urdu, alongside Marathi, on a signboard in Maharashtra, dismissing the misconception that Urdu is foreign to India. It cautioned against associating language with ...

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Harvard University Press is marking the 10th anniversary of its Murty Classical Library of India (MCLI) with the release of Ten Indian Classics ... a great Urdu poet. Sen noted how Urdu itself ...

A lot of best-sellers become hit movies, but which classic novels have made the greatest movies? The practice of adapting movies from literary works is as old as movies itself. In 1910 ...

It's here, if you're interested. I was intrigued by how the novel, among its many other strands, also finds room for a marked Buddhist element. Do we know if there's a precedent for this in Urdu ...

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