All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

PRATIKSHA APURV portrays Krishna s Raas Leela in a colourful painting where the gopis and their beloved Gopala are dancing in gay abandonAmong all the gods and goddesses in ancient scriptures Krishna ...

On my first attempt with Urdu poetry, it recognized not only the Urdu text, but also gave an accurate summary of the poem. The biggest challenge, once again, was narration.

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M. Salim ur ...

Text (English): The English translation of the corresponding Urdu tweet. Image_Text: Text extracted from images in Urdu. If no text is extracted, the value 'NIL' is used. Image_Text (English): The ...

Your translations—of Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas, Krishna Sobti’s A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There, Khadija Mastur’s The Women’s Courtyard, and Geetanjali Shree’s Our City That Year and Once Elephants Lived ...

So this is one of the significant contributions by Sufis to the enrichment of Urdu poetry. This, as a heritage, awaits further research and study full of respect and admiration. The writers and poets ...

Around a century ago, famous Urdu poet Mohammed Iqbal, who, wrote ‘Sare Jahan Se Achcha Hindustan hamara’, called Ram Imam-e-Hind. The expression gained currency during the Babri Masjid-Ram ...

Written by actor, playwright and poet Piyush Mishra, ‘Gagan Damama Bajyo’, portrays the remarkable life of one of India's revered freedom fighter and revolutionary, Shaheed Bhagat Singh.

The challenges of the Urdu script “We live in a text-saturated society, so the exposure the younger generations have to typographic complexity is very high,” says graphic designer and web ...