Juan Elia’s poetry serves as a catalyst for reconnecting individuals with the fading voice of Urdu, which once flourished ...

An upcoming session of literature and poetry explores themes of love and restlessness through classic and contemporary ...

Beyond her celebrated image as the “Tragedy Queen” of Hindi cinema, Meena Kumari was an accomplished poet. She wrote under ...

The Missing Prayer is a tell-tale rhythmic recital of the losses, the voids, the gaps and the simplest of the tiny things ...

Braj Bhasha controversy teaches us that languages are not just means of communication—they are repositories of memory, ...

Zaban-e-Urdu hai jiska naam, Woh Hindustan ki jaan hai.” The language called Urdu is the life of Hindustan. Prologue: A ...

On curating and editing the mammoth The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City that features original work in English and ...

The 98th birth anniversary of the legendary ghazal singer Mehdi Hassan is being observed today, as fans in Pakistan and India ...

Her recent convocation address at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver was much more than a cancer-researcher's speech - it ...

In youth, such verses felt like exquisite escapes from the tyranny of love. But as twilight descends and age gently enters the mind’s private corridors, memory loss reveals its true face — not poetic, ...

Meticulously researched, politically astute and very juicy, this is a contemporary retelling of a case that rocked Pakistan ...