Hallaj’s mystical utterance to Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s revolutionary verse, South Asia’s poetic traditions have long intertwined ...

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

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

A quarter of a century may have passed after his demise, but the memory of Majrooh Sultanpuri continues to pervade the Indian ...

Rekhta Foundation was recognised at the Junoon Awards 2024 for revolutionising Urdu preservation through digital innovation ...

The Writers’ Forum Kuwait, after concluding a recent successful event of poetry at Avanti Palace, held another successful and enriching meeting on May 2 at the residence of poet Aamir Diwan.The ...

Listening to his stories, over and over again, kindled in her a love for the spoken word. "Later, I started listening to ...

Urdu, a language that thrived across centuries in the past, spoken by millions in India, has experienced a steady yet ...

President Droupadi Murmu awarded the 58th Jnanpith Award 2023 to poet-lyricist Gulzar and Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya for their exceptional literary contributions.

One can castigate Hindi films ... literary forms of poetry amd managed to burrow deep into what is today called 'massey' mindsets and identities. Since reading of classical Urdu texts was possible ...

Urdu found its most powerful expression in poetry (especially ghazals ... recognized Urdu (alongside Hindi) as an important language in northern India. The 19th century saw a rise in Urdu journalism, ...