Hyderabad's poetry communities are cultivating dynamic environments where creativity and connection flourish. Through open ...

Javed Siddiqui's journey from journalism to creative writing, working with legends like Satyajit Ray and Yash Chopra.

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The Quint’s Fabeha Syed has been honoured with the award for Best Show Host (Society & Culture) for the Urdunama podcast, at ...

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An obscure street in Delhi’s Karol Bagh still bears the name of my great-grandfather and it is where my ancestral home Faiz ...

These factors combine to paint a picture where poetry is on its deathbed and struggling for breath. As a young person in ...

A biopic in Kannada was released in 2018. A series called Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule was aired on DD National. The film ...

Born in the 1980s in Kotla Arab Ali Khan, a town in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Syed Qasim Omer grew up torn between his love for Punjabi and the pressure to speak Urdu, a language considered ... who ...

PREMIUM The bias against Urdu showed its face during the framing of a Constitution for independent India, but the noble ...

Once the language of poets, revolutionaries, and common folk, Urdu remains a symbol of the Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb — a syncretic ...

By upholding the use of Urdu on a municipal signboard in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court reaffirms India’s plural ethos, ...