Marked by a novel approach and presentation, Anisur Rahman’s ‘Essential Ghalib’ features 200 of the great poet’s verses in ...

Discover the life and poetry of Mirza Ghalib, a legendary poet whose legacy continues to captivate hearts today.

The curious case of literary censorship in Urdu with special emphasis on the oeuvre of Mir Taqi Mir, one of the greatest ...

Hear, Hear A street-side ear cleaner attends to a kulfiwala at Dadar Chowpatty—the better to hear you with when you call out ...

Khan’s stature was such that he was sometimes spoken about in the same terms as the saints he venerated through his music, the lyrics of which are drawn from Sufi poetry. His Pakistani biography ...

The ongoing debate over India's three-language policy has sparked significant controversy, particularly between the union ...

Then he told me: ‘When the djinn is inside me, talk to him in Urdu because he’s from Gujarat and doesn ... supposedly the djinn’s — told me that I should come to him alone for a remedy to my problems.

Faiz was a powerful binder of all revolutionary spirits, which is not rage but pain. His metaphors were the common product of ...

But, despite her growing repertoire in English, the love for Urdu-Hindustani poetry never left. “While I wrote professionally in English, I was always writing poetry in Hindustani for myself. Besides ...

Urdu teachers in Rajasthan on Tuesday (February 18, 2025) registered a strong protest against the Bharatiya Janata Party government’s move to replace Urdu with Sanskrit as third language in some ...