An intrepid critique of entrenched and entitled Muslim elites, CM Naim, a historian and essayist, recently passed away at 85.

An intrepid critique of entrenched and entitled Muslim elites, CM Naim, a historian and essayist, recently passed away at 85.

There’s a strange crisis unfolding. Young minds aren’t broken by poverty or war or hunger. They’re broken by option paralysis ...

Renu Khanna spends her time knitting, playing board games and reading. Often she opens her little poetry book, in which she ...

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

At "Voices for Palestine" at Hed Hi Studio, the Charleston community gathered to uplift Palestinian culture through poetry, ...

Urdu poetry still inspires people. While finding a sher or shayar is an issue, some platforms are giving a renewed push to a tradition in crisis.

The Government College Ludhiana, from where Sahir was rusticated in British times for his revolutionary poetry, now remembers ...

The allure of Umrao Jaan is not just in its characters’ recitals; the film embodies poetry in its form. It is no wonder then, that its digitally restored re-release in the theatres has brought so much ...

Can a culture survive as a way of life, even as the language and writing at its core, alter with time? Can we be rational and Malayalee or do we have to necessarily be religious and proudly cultural ...

The first one, compiled by Ahmed Deen, a close friend of Iqbal, was in fact a critical appreciation of Iqbal but it included a copious selection from Iqbal’s Urdu poetry.

Shaan's Ghazal Album: Discover why Indian singer Shaan collaborates with Dubai poet Amaan Haider Zaidi for his debut ghazal album.