Lucknow isn’t just a city of kebabs and monuments, nor is it limited to its mehmaan-nawazi and Urdu adab. Like every evolving city, it now has a far more layere ...

Languages, like people, carry memory. They hold within them the sound of lullabies, the rhythm of protest, the ache of love letters, and the pulse of poetry.

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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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Among all her poems, Remembrance (1845) stands out as a direct ancestor of Wuthering Heights. The speaker mourns a lover lost ...

Durban-born artist Deshan Styler Naidoo is bridging communities through music with his heartfelt Urdu song for Ramadaan - a testament to the power of devotion that transcends culture and faith.

Stay close — not because it is comfortable, but because it is crucial. Stay close — not because we are identical, but because we are intertwined. Stay close — because civilisation is stitched, not ...

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 ...

Discover how Jennifer Adams, a DePauw University professor, stumbled upon a treasure trove of 1930s love letters that changed her life's work. These letters remind us that handwritten words can ...

While many are still recovering from their Christmas expenses, here comes February inviting everyone to talk about love in commercially familiar ways—flowers, chocolates, grand gestures, all worthy of ...

Vladimir Nabokov is best known for being one of the most brilliant writers of the 20th century. But beyond his novels, his love letters to his wife Véra are what truly show his heart (Image: Pexels) ...