ONE of Urdu criticism’s unwritten but time-honoured understandings is to keep on writing on life and works of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (Dec 27, 1797 - Feb 15, 1869), one of the greatest and most ...

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The first book in Arabic about the life and poetry of the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib, titled Ghalib: A’zam Shu’ara’il-Hind ...

Javed Akhtar talks with Subhash K Jha about his father Jaan Nisar Akhtar, noted poet and lyricist for Hindi films on his ...

Subhash K Jha revisits Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf in this cool feature. As a bonus, we hear from star Priyanka Chopra ...

With the high-stakes India-Pakistan ICC Champions Trophy clash just days away, Indian pacer Arshdeep Singh took time off the ...

A one-day national seminar titled “The Linguistic Relationship Between Unani Medicine and Urdu” was organized by the All ...

A detailed report about the state and status of female fiction writers in Jammu and Kashmir with focus on Valley.

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It is an inseparable part of the cultural tradition of the region, being employed in daily conversation, folk melodies, and poetry. Although Urdu and Punjabi are also spoken in Multan, Seraiki is ...