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 ...

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

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

In his short yet impactful life span of 39 years, filmmaker Guru Dutt left a lasting impressions. Although he directed only 8 ...

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

The 19th death anniversary of renowned poet, writer, and literary figure Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi  observed on Thursday with ...

People often say Karachi is too big, too crowded, too messy — and they’re not wrong. With 20 million people and a pace that ...

Though he worked as an engineer by profession, he made a mark in Nepali literature as a short story writer, poet, and ...

The Missing Prayer is a tell-tale rhythmic recital of the losses, the voids, the gaps and the simplest of the tiny things ...