(Web Desk) - Thirteen years have passed since the demise of ‘Shehenshah-e-Ghazal’ Mehdi Hassan as his fans are set to observe ...

The closed-minded Victorian morality of the British was inevitably accepted by the Indian elite; they believed that tawaifs were polluting Indian culture. When some of the courtesans asked to be ...

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 ...

The first edition of the festival that focuses on the past and the present and the enduring culture of the city of ...

Dubai-based poet Amaan Haider Zaidi is the lyricist of Shaan’s debut Ghazal album, which will release across digital ...

Ajaib Kamal (1932–2011) was not only a prolific author but a revolutionary force in Punjabi literature, penning more than 50 ...

SONAL SRIVASTAVA discovers at the Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavana that devotees are discouraged from staring at the idol for too long in case they lose themselvesBanke Bihari Lal ki jai The crowd er ...

In Gulmarg, Abdullah quoted a couplet of Pakistani Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, ‘Dil na umeed to nahi, nakaam hi to hai, lambi ...

A ghazal from Noor Jehan ... And I came to see that what politics divided, poetry could momentarily mend. What language labelled, music could unname. It wasn’t about Urdu or Hindi or Punjabi or ...