Durga Puja is both worship and carnival. Religious rituals coexist with theatre, music, and culinary delights. Akbarabadi’s ...

As we celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi, it is worth remembering that the deity was once invoked in Urdu couplets. Nazeer Akbarabadi’s ‘Stuti of Ganeshji’ stands out as a glowing example of syncretic culture ...

An emeritus professor in the University of Chicago’s Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations (SALC), which he ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Jaipur, Jan 27 (IANS) Shiv Kishan Bissa, popularly known as Sheen Kaaf Nizam, a celebrated Urdu poet and literary scholar from Jodhpur, has been awarded the Padma Shri for his ...

Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s critical work on Urdu progressives and other writers is well-recognised as are her translations from Urdu. In her latest book, Love in the ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...

Sandeep Gupte, growing up in multi-cultural Bhopal, fell in love with Urdu. He was just 16. The romance continues even after more than three decades and moving base to Mumbai has not affected that ...

PESHAWAR: A literary reference was arranged under the auspices of Halqa-i-Arbab Zauq to pay tributes to noted Urdu writer Prof Nazeer Tabassum, who died of cardiac arrest this month during a literary ...

The first one is a collection of poems by Sohrab Sepheri (1928-1980), the modern Persian poet, translator and painter. Selected and translated into Urdu by Moeen Nizami, it is titled Aaeenon Ki Jheel ...

The Maharashtra State Urdu Sahitya Academy’s three-day Bahar-e-Urdu celebrations marking its golden jubilee opened to a ...