The Hindi-Urdu controversy is not just about language. It reflects historical conflicts, colonial policies, and political struggles that continue today in India.

Rahmat, poet-singer Minu Bakshi stirs emotions of love and longing. She tells HTCity how Urdu poetry is still relevant in Gen ...

The poet Nezami Ganjavi, one of the giants of the Persian literary tradition, is the author of the melodic romantic and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the 25th edition of Jahan-e-Khusrau in Delhi, praising the Sufi tradition and Amir ...

For the last three decades and more the once verdant artistic landscape of Patna has become more like a cultural desert ...

The Urdu word ‘Rahzan,’ roughly translated as ‘thief,’ implies that when a woman decides to pursue something, she must endure ...

At a time when historical wounds remain etched in collective memory, PM Modi’s championing of Sufi traditions signals an ...

It is impossible to identify a pure Hindi or Urdu speaker. The Urdu-Hindi controversy not merely survived but also ...

Influenced by artistic freedom, Mazharul Islam's creative experiments grant him a unique and elevated place in Urdu literature, hence it wouldn't be wrong to say that he is the "manifest sun" of Urdu ...

“Ahmad Faraz had adopted the plea before the Lahore High Court (LHC) upon arrest that he had no other resource to communicate his poetry, but the same plea would not have been available if taken ...

Novels were launched and discussed, Urdu poetry recited at the level of Iftikhar Arif, who also chaired a mushaira. Certainly the most innovative session belonged to Ayedha Husain’s introduction ...

The Urdu Adab’s special issue on Mir Taqi Mir acknowledges a past mistake of censorship and rectifies it by publishing, for the first time, the complete unabridged text of ‘Zikr-i Mir’, the poet’s ...