Hariharan shares his love for Hyderabad, ghazals, and his musical journey ahead of the Humrahi concert in the city.

Our Chandigarh had its share of poets and there had been lyrical poets of the fame of Shiv Kumar Batalvi writing in Punjabi and Prem Warbortoni penning ghazals in Urdu with aplomb, calling out to his ...

IN MY small town, Bheramara, Ekushey February was a ritual. Barefoot we roamed, demanding the same of every passerby — a ...

Deepak Raj In a small room, he spends his days in silence. His world, once filled with vibrant colours, and intricate strokes ...

Linguist Peggy Mohan discusses the evolution of Indian languages in her new book, emphasizing the role of male migrations in ...

Rising Hindu nationalism and recent incidents of censorship have made exhibitors increasingly cautious to show contentious ...

Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, is home to more than 20 million people and has been in the news many times due to climate-related issues such as heat waves, urban flooding and bad air quality. On ...

Javed Akhtar talks with Subhash K Jha about his father Jaan Nisar Akhtar, noted poet and lyricist for Hindi films on his ...

The 44th death anniversary of fiction and detective writer, novelist and urdu poet Asrar Ahmed known as Ibn ... Jasoosi Dunya and the 120-book Imran Series, with a small canon of satirical works and ...

Many of those in the small Muslim elite were Urdu-speaking Muslims who did not ... we in Bengal found in Nazrul Islam a voice of the moment; for his poetry both assuaged and enhanced the thirst ...