Zehra Nigah with Ahmad Faraz, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Gopi Chand Narang, Shohrat Bukhari and Iftikhar Hussain Arif.poetryIdo not ...

The village of Pingalgam in south Kashmir doesn't often make news. It's the kind of place where time feels slow, schools are ...

A man who arrived in 1960s Bradford in search of a better life has spoken about the power of community as he releases his 14th book.

Beyond the narrow confines of Hindi lie histories of rich literary traditions, exclusion, a stepping stone to access and deep ...

By the late 1800s and first two decades of the twentieth century, several periodicals and newspapers came out in undivided ...

Saba Karim Khan’s new anthology gathers 24 voices reflecting on belonging across borders, identities and personal histories ...

Selected Stories’, which has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in Deepa Bhasthi’s translation.

Long before the advent of the modern concept of Mother's Day, Indian traditions and mythology have long upheld the mother as ...

Urdu found its most powerful expression in poetry (especially ghazals ... After the Partition, Urdu was declared the national language, even though it was the mother tongue of a small segment (mainly ...

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The last number of the screening was a very vulnerable representation of actual video footage from Meesha’s childhood, showing memorable moments with her mother ... doing it in Urdu really supported ...

But when the words came — in Hindi, in Urdu, in English — they embroidered the air with longing and insight. The poetry, written by Amrita Saluja ... I’d send it to my mother, my friends, the ones who ...