TO enjoy any LitFest, one needs to be a hyperactive octopus, with eyes and ears at the end of ... Novels were launched and discussed, Urdu poetry recited at the level of Iftikhar Arif, who also ...

Maryam Naz is a folk singer and dholak player from Thar. The bright colours of her ghagra-kanjra — the traditional attire of ...

Wrapped in our centuries-old history lie micro-histories with stories that inspire; enveloped within those stories are layers of micro-stories which broaden understanding.

Considered by some the most incomparable cultural icon of medieval Islamic India, Khusrau left such a deep imprint on Delhi’s ...

He published Margaret Atwood’s poetry and had an 18-minute interview ... in her retirement and even took a stab at learning Urdu, Bob celebrated the new immigrant society that had transformed ...

The 77-year-old Kannada writer authored six short story collections, a novel, an essay collection, and poetry throughout her ... was previously translated into Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam.

I will put my hand on your head and when I jerk it three times, look down, don’t try to look up, the fire in his (djinn’s) eye may burn you ... talk to him in Urdu because he’s from Gujarat and ...

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