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

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 ...

Eminent critic and writer Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered a lecture at the Arts Council of Pakistan in Karachi on May 30, 2025, ...

Centenarian Yasmin Shaikh, a Marathi grammar expert, advocates for preserving the language’s purity and beauty, teaching it ...

Muzaffar Ali’s version featuring Rekha in the title role, begins with little Ameeran in Faizabad abducted to Lucknow to be moulded and shaped into a perfect tawaif, and ends with Umrao grown from the ...

Unlike other famous courtesans of Hindi cinema and literature, Umrao Jan’s story has been revisited time and again over the ...

In an age driven by technology and social media, when languages are being diminished to emojis and abbreviations, Urdu, a language of silken metaphors and layered meanings, is experiencing an ...

A POET who rediscovered her passion after 20 years is set to release a book on her life in Kashmir and Yorkshire.

In another first, Birla College, Kalyan, announced the start of the Mandarin language courses, recently in a glittering ...

HASSAN: All writers draw on their experience, whether consciously or not, says Indian author Banu Mushtaq, including the titular tale of attempted self-immolation in her International Booker ...

Looking about the Cheshire Cheese public house at the assembled members of the Rhymers’ Club, Yeats is reported to have said, ‘We are too many.’ The same thought occurred to me on first looking into ...

Download CV Cristina Rivera Garza, Ph.D., is the award-winning author of six novels, three collections of short stories, five collections of poetry and three non-fiction books. Originally written in ...