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In an interview with SheThePeople, musician Sonam Kalra spoke about how music became her tool for healing, self-discovery, ...
Nagpur: In the lead-up to the much-anticipated Nagpur Book Festival set to be held from November 22 to 30 at Reshimbagh ...
Her recent convocation address at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver was much more than a cancer-researcher's speech - it ...
When an East India Company officer fell in love with a teenage girl from a noble Muslim family in Hyderabad, it caused uproar and scandal in both colonial and local circles. But their brief love story ...
Why is an ancient Indic language an integral part of school curriculum in the UK SONAL SRIVASTAVA reports on the eve of the World Book Fair where Sanskrit workbooks by British teachers will hit the st ...
There’s a strange crisis unfolding. Young minds aren’t broken by poverty or war or hunger. They’re broken by option paralysis ...
Ganesha trumpets July launches a better brighter and blessed world Jupiter the prosperity and wisdom planet will be in the spiritual and paradoxically enough money sign Cancer from July 2013 to July 2 ...
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 ...
Director Muzaffar Ali's epic-drama 'Umrao Jaan' (1981), re-released in theatres on June 27. What makes the film still ...
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 ...
And how do these translations sound? The fact is translating poetry is never easy, in any language, let alone Urdu’s trope-laden poetry that comes with Mir’s idiomatic expressions.
Of prose poetry in Urdu By Syed Afsar Sajid Books: ‘Kahani ek shaher ki’ by Dr. Jawaz Jafri ‘Samaey ka dhara’ & ‘Dar-e-imkaN pay dastak’ by Yusuf Khalid Prose poetry is a literary form ...