The fourth edition of the acclaimed Urdu book “Aik Kahawat, Aik Kahani” by eminent writer Athar Iqbal has been published by ...

After reading some interesting analyses of the dominance of the Hindi-belt in India, I thought about my work on culture, language, and politics, specifically the decay of Urdu litearure in ...

Urdu poetry has always lived through the human voice. Its power lies not just in what is said, but in how it sounds ...

Anxious parents shortlisting the ideal career path for their maturing child, amidst growing economic uncertainty and rising unemployment in the country, hope to miraculously pinpoint the ultimate ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar, described as the oldest literary association in Qatar and established in 1959, held a symposium on classic Urdu literature, attended by enthusiasts, poets, and writers from the ...

LITERARY trends and movements do not come and go with the flip of the calendar. Somehow we tend to gauge literary ideas and trends according to our own sense of time when they have their own natural ...

New collection of Rashid’s nazms, compiled & edited by festival director Amitabh Baghel, attempts to revive the poet's voice ...

Urdu, spoken by many millions today, has a rich past that reflects how cultures melded to forge India's complex history. But its literature has been subsumed by the cultural domination of Hindi, ...

TO pay homage to his 'guru', Altaf Hussain Hali wrote Yadgar-i-Ghalib, a fascinating biography of the poet. Written by a disciple and close associate, the book laid the foundation of Ghalibyat, or ...