Language is not religion and to consider Urdu as a language of Muslims is a "pitiable digression" from reality and unity in diversity, the Supreme Court has said while rejecting a petition ...

Azad’s poetry transcends physical, cultural, or geographical barriers and her contribution to Urdu literature is a testament to the transformative power of art and the importance of using our ...

PREMIUM The bias against Urdu showed its face during the framing of a Constitution for independent India, but the noble architects of that wonderful charter of governance adopted in 1950 did their ...

India’s top court upheld the use of Urdu on public signboards in Maharashtra, rejecting the notion that the language was alien to the country. The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Urdu and ...

The Supreme Court upheld the use of Urdu on a Maharashtra municipal council's name board alongside Marathi, saying that the language cannot be tied to any particular religion and that there is no ...

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

On my first attempt with Urdu poetry, it recognized not only the Urdu text, but also gave an accurate summary of the poem. The biggest challenge, once again, was narration. Hearing an anglicized ...

The Supreme Court dismissed a petition challenging the use of Urdu signboards in the Patur Municipal Council of Akola in ...

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SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - A North High School student was named state champion and will now have the opportunity to compete in the national Poetry Out Loud competition in Washington, D.C. Emma Oleson ...

I thought maybe I was having heat-related hallucinations. I had begun writing poetry to work through my emotions around the hard parts of my life — not just teenage crushes, but also suicidal ...

Javed Akhtar, whose participation delighted the audience, said, “Poetry is not about big words or difficult ideas. It’s about saying something simple that touches people deeply. Tonight ...