One user described stealing mangoes from a nearby farm with a new classmate, only to be caught and shouted at while the friend ran off. “I stopped being friends with that guy after that day,” he wrote ...

Zehra Nigah with Ahmad Faraz, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Gopi Chand Narang, Shohrat Bukhari and Iftikhar Hussain Arif.poetryIdo not ...

Special Walking Tour of the Oldest Streets in Delhi to reveal its hidden gem. These are all part of a unique city that lives ...

Even a Hindi scholar namely, Ram Vilas Sharma, who is a strong supporter of Hindi as a national language, in his book “Bharat ki ... exuberance of Urdu in the poetry of Zauq, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and ...

Vintage Kannada short fiction in translation, a candid meditation on the cruel finality of death, and much more.

The 153rd death anniversary of classical Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was observed on Tuesday. Ghalib was born on December 27, 1796 in the city of Akbarabad. Mirza Ghalib is considered as one ...

The thousand desires suggested by the title – taken from a Mirza Ghalib poem – is reflected in the film’s dedication to a period when “the country was being pulled in a thousand directions ...

LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall.” Books of lyric poems work like museums: We enter, we wander, we investigate, we marvel at our favorites, if we can find them, and we ask ourselves how they came ...

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The following poem from Ipsa Satakshi's book in Hindi, Ishq aur Sangharsh (Love and Conflict) is an ode to her partner and independent journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh, imprisoned since July 2022 on ...