This isn’t about clinging to the past; it’s about preserving a vital part of our present and future. Urdu is not just a language; it’s a cultural treasure, a repository of our collective memory. It’s ...

The Urdu Adab’s special issue on Mir Taqi Mir acknowledges a past mistake of censorship and rectifies it by publishing, for ...

Javed Akhtar talks with Subhash K Jha about his father Jaan Nisar Akhtar, noted poet and lyricist for Hindi films on his ...

A one-day national seminar titled “The Linguistic Relationship Between Unani Medicine and Urdu” was organized by the All ...

Balochi language has made remarkable progress in the digital era. It has recently been incorporated in Google Translate and ...

The late lyricist Iqbal Husain, who was professionally known as Hasrat Jaipuri, once narrated the story of how he had his ...

In the fast-paced world of today, humans are making nearly thousands of decisions in a single day, leaving little room for ...

The Dastangoi Collective returns to the city for a four-day festival that celebrates their journey towards reinventing the ...

Beth’s witty musings – “I think poetry is simply list-making masquerading as art” – are undercut by crude barbs, such as when she compares her daughter’s mouth to a cat’s arse.

It opened my mind. It was Good Will Hunting but with paintings and architecture instead of poetry.” “Crude Oil (Vettriano)” was first exhibited in Banksy’s landmark 2005 exhibition Crude ...