Beyond her celebrated image as the “Tragedy Queen” of Hindi cinema, Meena Kumari was an accomplished poet. She wrote under ...

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

At "Voices for Palestine" at Hed Hi Studio, the Charleston community gathered to uplift Palestinian culture through poetry, ...

The story of the Filose family in India begins with founder Michael Filose who came from Naples to Calcutta in 1770 AD and ...

Muzaffar Ali’s version featuring Rekha in the title role, begins with little Ameeran in Faizabad abducted to Lucknow to be moulded and shaped into a perfect tawaif, and ends with Umrao grown from the ...

In the frame, the veteran actress holds Fatima close, as they both gaze at a coffee table book that chronicles the visual and ...

Sahitya Akademi on Wednesday announced the names of 23 writers, including English writer Advait Kottary and Hindi author Parvati Tirkey, who will receive the prestigious Yuva Puraskar across as many ...

Drawn first to its sound, it was the Urdu poetry of Mirza Ghalib and Faiz Ahmed Faiz ... for everyone.” He’s worked with big names, including Salim-Sulaiman, but admits he’s not in it for the ...

It is Delhi that showed the exuberance of Urdu in the poetry of Zauq, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and the legendary Mirza Ghalib. It is Delhi where Hon’ble Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Hon’ble Justice K Vinod ...

Urdu found its most powerful expression in poetry (especially ghazals). Poets like Amir Khusrau, Mir Taqi Mir, and Mirza Ghalib elevated the language’s literary prestige. During the Mughal period, the ...

The court responded that official work should indeed be conducted in the official language, but writing the municipal name in another language for public convenience does not violate the law. Justice ...

ISLAMABAD, Mar 20 (APP):Today marks the 33rd death anniversary of Eshrat Rahmani, a celebrated Urdu poet known for his eloquent poetry and deep reflections on human emotions and social issues. Eshrat ...