Urdu, a language woven into the fabric of India’s cultural and historical identity, faces growing challenges under the current Bharatiya Janata Party ...

Irshad Khan ‘Sikandar’, poet, lyricist, writer and playwright who enthralled both enthusiasts and connoisseurs alike, passed ...

And this is what makes the award of the Booker Prize last week to Banu Mushtaq so important. Her collection of short stories ...

Lucknow: The UP Sangeet Natak Akademi on Friday witnessed a mesmerising confluence of poetry, ghazal, and kathak during Bayan ...

Listening to his stories, over and over again, kindled in her a love for the spoken word. "Later, I started listening to storytellers on YouTube," she says. Prishita stumbled into Sriti Jha's ‘The ...

It is the official language of Karnataka, a state nestled between Kerala (where they speak Malayalam), Tamil Nadu (where ...

The story of Jyoti Malhotra, the travel vlogger, who, along with 6 other people have been booked under the charges of espionage remind us of a story, from long ago of an Indian diplomat who fell in ...

The day is observed under Islamabad’s tutelage every year on February 5. It is usually centred in Islamabad, Pakistan’s ...

In his opinion Faiq’s verse is like a fresh and fragrant gust of wind in the realm of Urdu poetry that serves to distinguish him amongst his contemporaries. At the same time Rao Manzar Hayat ...