While Meena Kumari earned the title of Bollywood’s Tragedy Queen for her melancholic characters, her real life mirrored much ...

Purani Dilli to Ayodhya, Fouzia Dastango is reimagining Hindu epics to Meena Kumari’s story in Urdu. Crowds love it.

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

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

Ma Yongbo 马永波 celebrates his birthday on the 17th July 2025. When he was born, he was called Yongbo 永波 (Forever Wave) by his ...

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

LAHORE - Renowned Urdu poet, short story writer, and literary icon Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi was remembered on his 19th death ...

Her recent convocation address at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver was much more than a cancer-researcher's speech - it ...

Braj Bhasha controversy teaches us that languages are not just means of communication—they are repositories of memory, ...

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...