A 400-page anthology of the poetry of Mir Taqi Mir, presented in Urdu, Hindi and English alongside an insightful commentary, makes the 18th century poet’s work more accessible to the contemporary Angl ...

The 17th Karachi Literature Festival was fuelled by an unswerving, if wildly optimistic, belief in the transformative power ...

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Jameela Nishat gives us a profound gift – a set of poems that are evocative, poignant, provocative and insightful.

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The Hyderabad Urdu Conference of 1944 was held on a grand scale. It was dominated by the Progressives, who were its driving ...

Padma Shri poet Shafi Shauq warns institutions—not people—threaten Kashmiri. He explains power, translation, and survival.

The Indian indie music scene is going through a paradigm shift as Santhanam Srinivasan Iyer, aka EPR, embarks on a new and exciting chapter of his illustrious c ...

Instead, he encountered a resolute cold shoulder. Friends and fellow writers refused to meet him, mourning his silence during the 1971 atrocities -- the massacre of students, intellectuals, and ...

Know Your Neighbour, and the House of Oudh, jointly hosted the book launch of ‘Wajid Ali Shah: A Literary and Cultural Legacy’ ...

A Cultural and Literary Legacy' by Kaukub Quder Sajjad Ali Meerza and Talat Fatima re-examines Awadh's last ruler as a major cultural force. This book aims to challenge colonial narratives and ...

India, Feb. 21 -- On February 21, the world pauses to remember a truth written in blood and ink - that language is not merely a tool of communication, but the soul of a people. International Mother ...