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

In an age of emojis and fonts, Delhi’s calligraphers are struggling to protect the art’s soul. We find out how they are ...

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, ...

Beyond her celebrated image as the “Tragedy Queen” of Hindi cinema, Meena Kumari was an accomplished poet. She wrote under ...

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.

Nora Fatehi was recently clicked at the Mumbai airport in a state of distress as she was visibly emotional. She also posted a ...

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 ...