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 ...

xl, 261 pages ; 21 cmPublication date 1984 Topics Bly, Robert -- Criticism and interpretation, Bly, Robert, Poetry in English American writers Bly, Robert - Critical studies Publisher New York : ...

Director Muzaffar Ali's epic-drama 'Umrao Jaan' (1981), re-released in theatres on June 27. What makes the film still ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Students chanting Sanskrit shlokas in the padmasana crosslegged posture with thumbs touching their index fingers makes it look like an ancient gurukul Just that it is the Rajkiya Thakur Harisingh Shek ...

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