The municipal bus stand auditorium in Malappuram was packed. But nobody quite knew what to expect. After all, a new event was making its debut at the State School Arts Festival. The moment V.G.

LAHORE: Pakistan’s own Urdu ChatGPT, “Qalb”, has officially been launched, marking a historic milestone in the country’s digital journey. Developed under the leadership of Taimoor Hassan, a Pakistani ...

Daniele Speziale, 27, known as Rahi Italvi, works at the visa application centre in Kolkata and performs Urdu ghazals across the city Daniele Speziale, 27, also known as Rahi Italvi When 27-year-old ...

Sit down for a cup of coffee in any American diner, and the chances are it’ll be served in a thick, bright white mug with a broad, curved handle, and characteristically inward-curving, hourglass-like ...

Later this month, October 30 marks the death of Begum Akhtar in 1974. Fifty-one years later, when ghazals are mentioned, her name is among the top, maybe even the first, that comes up. Her story is ...

Shad Naved’s The Ghazal Eros: Lyric Queerness in History is a long-awaited study. This book has been anticipated not only as an important scholarly intervention but also as a distillation of Naved’s ...

Mamaearth co-founder Ghazal Alagh's shared a message for aspiring entrepreneurs, advocating for a focus on solving real problems to achieve lasting impact in the market.(Ghazal Alagh @LinkedIn) In the ...

Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dining through the lens of travel, trends and personal experiences. When Joey Ghazal first started developing the concept for The ...