Even as she won the Uttar Pradesh Sahitya Akademi Award and Soviet Land Nehru Award later in her life, she is not widely ...

In this week’s Urdunama, the spotlight falls on a deceptively simple word: Soch, the private lens through which we view the world, and often, the quiet architect of our joy, pain, and self-mythology.

Gulzar, the recipient of the Jnanpith Award, expresses optimism about the future of Urdu. He believes that despite the decline of the Urdu script, the language itself is alive and thriving, with Urdu ...

Amidst this charged atmosphere, few voices rang with as much passion, defiance, and revolutionary energy as that of Josh ...

The festival that opened with a conversation with veteran poet Gulzar will feature conversations with Javed Akhtar, mushairas ...

Dhoop Chhaon”and “Mein Tanhayee Mein Sochta Hoon”. Author : Dr. Jitendra Udhampuri Publisher : Highbrow Publications, Bari ...

In post-independence India, Urdu has undergone a strange trajectory both in the language politics and in the socio-cultural realm. Born, flourished and having seen the heyday of its glory in this ...

Karachi’s literature aficionados look forward to the winter months when the sun shines a little less harshly and the city ...

After we arrived in upstate New York in the fall of 2017 as cultural exchange visitors, we kept thinking about how to introduce the people here to some aspects of Pakistani culture. We kept bouncing ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Legendary actor Dharmendra was a great lover of the Urdu language and always wanted to visit Bhopal, ...

Who does Urdu belong to? India's right-wing seems to think it's a foreign import, forced upon by so-called Islamic invaders. The latest fracas happened in April when a reporter from a far-right news ...