What does true obsession look like? It’s when someone is willing to go to any length for the person they admire. Such was the ...

Yog Rahi Gupta [email protected] It was 1974. I was studying at Jammu University – that age when dreams appear so ...

Hyderabad is one of the few Indian cities that has still kept Urdu close to its roots, be it in language, culture, mannerisms or everyday conversations. To celebrate the city’s enduring connection ...

New York's first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani, embodies a journey shaped by cross-continental migration, artful storytelling ...

No lover is to be seen around. The cap wearers have killed indiscriminately. In 1839, the French Orientalist Garcin de Tassy penned a literary history of Hindavi and Hindustani poetry. Tassy’s ...

Everybody likes ghazals. Or they do when they learn what they are: A ghazal is a poetic form originating in and strongly associated with the Islamic cultural sphere. It is a medieval thing—or what ...

The Supreme Court has recently stated that Urdu is “the finest specimen of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb" or the “Hindustani tehezeeb" upholding the use of Urdu on a signboard of a municipal council building ...

56th Shankar-Shad Mushaira: Some traditions hold their ground no matter how much time passes and some legacies remain just as cherished as they were when they first began. The Shankar-Shad Mushaira is ...

Sufi music is more than just a genre—it is an expression of divine love, longing, and spiritual transcendence. Rooted in the mystical traditions of Sufism, it has evolved into several subgenres, each ...

rdu. The very word evokes a sense of nostalgia, a whisper of poetry, a connection to a rich cultural heritage. More than just a language, it’s an emotion, a shared history, a mother tongue that ...

Rizwan-Meuzzam Qawwali Group is a Pakistani Qawwali ensemble led by brothers Rizwan and Muazzam Ali Khan. The duo performs with their seven-member party, who provide harmonium, percussion and ...

These words from Naomi Lazard’s translation of one of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s less-known masterpieces, Ek Din Yun Khizan Aa Gai, were among the first I stumbled upon during a simple Google search for “poems ...