The Maharashtra Urdu Sahitya Academy celebrated its 50th anniversary with Bahar-e-Urdu, an evening filled with riveting ...

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

The second day of the Bahar-e-Urdu festival was a vibrant celebration at the Dome SVP Stadium, marking fifty years of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...