In this book of essays, Rakhshanda Jalil shines a light on the inclusive and pluralistic nature of Urdu poetry ...

The Grand Finale is to be held at Jashn e Rekhta 2024, on 13, 14 & 15 DecemberNew Delhi :  Rekhta Foundation has ...

More than 50 bookstores lined Urdu Bazaar in the 1970s, but just 5 are left, all struggling to survive. It’s the last throes ...

Death anniversary of classical Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir is being observed today. Born in Agra in 1723, Mir breathed his last on ...

Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, saw the Bangla language movement in 1952 against the imposition of Urdu by Pakistan. Five ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ) held a programme that brought together poets, writers, and literature enthusiasts from the ...

THE retired Colonel living next to my house is well past 80 but still fit as a fiddle. He is known for his stingy habits, a ...

The 76th death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, was commemorated at the National Press Club in Dhaka with Urdu songs and poetry on Wednesday.  Speakers on the ...

Nehru was in all probability an agnostic, not unlike the nastikas of ancient India, the intellectual dissenters who ...

In a landmark event, Bangladesh commemorated the death anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Dhaka for the first ...

More than 50 bookstores lined Urdu Bazaar in the 1970s, but just 5 are left, all struggling to survive. It’s the last throes of an era of Urdu printing, publishing, and poetry.

Discover Akhil Katyal's multilingual poetry exploring diversity, homophobia, and loss, with translations and upcoming ...