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, ...

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

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

To name just a few of the daredevils of the 70s: Kamala Das in Malayalam, Maha Shveta Devi in Bengali, Ismat Chughtai and Quratulain Hyder in Urdu, Krishna Sobti in Hindi and of course our very ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry collection Arzoo ka dia by Doha-based poet Samreen Nadeem Samar. This is her ...

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 Khari Boli–Braj Bhasha controversy teaches us that languages are not just means of communication—they are repositories of memory, religion, resistance, and aspiration.

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

Kim Kardashian shared a heartbreaking birthday tribute to her late childhood friend Lindsay May months after she died of a "rare" cancer.

Xavier Legette of the Panthers displayed his country roots in a viral video trying to help his friend save an ATV from muddy water ahead of Carolina Panthers training camp.