For someone steeped deep in the Urdu ethos, who grew up in the environs around Lucknow of the 1940s–’50s, he was ...

Renowned Urdu scholar, author and translator CM Naim died at age 89 on Wednesday in Chicago, his family has told the press.

Zaban-e-Urdu hai jiska naam, Woh Hindustan ki jaan hai.” The language called Urdu is the life of Hindustan. Prologue: A ...

Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) hosted a special event on Wednesday in memory of the legendary literary figure, humorist, ...

The Lahore Arts Council, Alhamra, paid tribute to the iconic novelist Abdullah Hussain by organizing a reflective and intellectually ...

CM Naim’s translation of 19th-century reformer Ashrafunnisa Begum’s biography was published in 2021. Naim, a translator and ...

Arabic and Persian not only shaped the literary culture of thetime but also influenced the direction in which it developed.

Banu Mushtaq, the first Kannada writer to win the International Booker Prize, earlier this year, visited Bengaluru to meet and greet students and teachers at the Mount Carmel College. During her ...

An intrepid critique of entrenched and entitled Muslim elites, CM Naim, a historian and essayist, recently passed away at 85.

The author reflects on language and identity through his family's experiences. His father and father-in-law, both ...

Banu Mushtaq, Booker Prize-winning author, reflects on her journey, challenges, and the power of storytelling in English and Kannada.