A look into the tradition of marsia and how it became an integral part of modern Urdu poetry Poetics of marsia (elegy) has demonstrated a dynamism which has enabled it to survive in the face of time.

LAHORE, May 3: A book titled ‘From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History’ by Dr Tariq Rehman was launched at the Oxford Bookshop, Mini Market, Gulberg, on Thursday. The book was on the ...

`Fiction` is among the words that have been borrowed by Urdu from the English language but this loan word has very much become part of the Urdu vocabulary. The word fiction is often used as a synonym ...

The journal’s special issue is essential reading for those interested in the history of Delhi for academic, cultural and linguistic reasons Recorded history, the kind that has increasingly become ...

The second day of the 10th edition of Jashn-e-Rekhta saw a mushaira by acclaimed names, including Wasim Barelvi, Javed Akhtar ...

“My love, I cannot tell the tale of all the things I want from you. A hundred longings fill my soul, a thousand yearnings throng my heart.” — Mir Taqi Mir Of late there has been a renewed interest in ...

The significance of Urdu in the freedom struggle is uncontested for most commentators on the literary history of India; yet such is the politics of language and such also is the power of steady ...

ISLAMABAD: The National Language Promotion Department (NLPD) on Friday held a ceremony to commemorate noted linguist, critic and writer Dr Jameel Jalibi who had passed away recently. During the ...

Language is identity. This is something most people believe in. When I began researching Hyderabad’s history over the last decade, I came across a big mismatch in what we, Dakhni people, are told ...

Indian bookseller Mohammed Mahfooz Alam, one of the few remaining people selling literature in a language that poets have cherished for ages, sits desolately in his small shop in the busy centre of ...