(HT_PRINT) The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the use of Urdu on the signboards of a municipal council in Maharashtra, saying that Urdu and Marathi have the same status under the Constitution.

New Delhi: 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 ...

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It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Johnny Tillotson, the singer behind Sixties hits “Poetry in Motion” and “It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin’,” has died at the age of 86. Tillotson’s wife, Nancy, confirmed the news in a ...

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Publishing poetry on Instagram “goes beyond writing. On social media, there's a communication, a visual, an aesthetic and an audio aspect. Of course you must have a way with words, but you also ...

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M.

New Delhi: A day after the BJP scored a thumping victory in the Delhi Assembly election and ended the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) 10-year-rule, newly elected BJP MLA Parvesh Verma launched a shayari ...

Drawing on the traditions of Arabic and Persian poetry, the classical writers of the Urdu ghazal frequently employed interconnected metaphorical systems. Iqbal’s response to this garden often ...

Eminent Urdu writer Shamim Tariq on Wednesday said that Firaq Gorakhpuri is the Mir of modern Urdu poetry. Tariq was speaking at the opening session of the two-day national seminar “Firaq ...