The article concludes powerfully that nihilism itself can be a ‘threshold’ rather than an endpoint. By unmasking false ...

Had Ghalib foreseen that his lifelong lament over neglect would one day transmute into posthumous immortality, he might have refrained from writing the very couplet whose first line is partly used as ...

MUMBAI, (IANS) – Even 154 years after his death, the legendary Urdu-Persian poet — Mirza Beg Asadullah Khan, or just Mirza Ghalib — often referred to as the ’emperor of romance’, continues to live and ...

Singer Yawar Abdal and Kashmir are inextricably tied. The moment he speaks, his devotion to his homeland rises unmistakably ...

Kashmir will remember him not merely as a poet or scholar but as a cultural ambassador, a bridge connecting generations ...

Roman Urdu is when Urdu stops wearing its elegant Nastaliq attire and slips into casual English jeans. Instead of “آنا,” we ...

The walled city of Old Delhi – in the heart of Mir and Ghalib’s Delhi – the high seat of 19th-century Urdu literature – is a ...

A meditation on the death of a beloved grandparent and a partner in the space of a single weekend that is also an ode to Delhi ...

Nazriya Pakistan Council has hosted a special ceremony in connection with Iqbal Day. The theme of the event was “The ...

oetry in South Asia has rarely been confined to the page. Long before printed books or recorded cassettes, verse lived and moved through sound; spoken, sung and memorised. Most poets reached the ...

The Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA Mumbai) marked its 56th anniversary with a grand performance of 'Aakhri Shama,' a timeless play written by the legendary poet Kaifi Azmi, designed and ...

Dr Arifa Syeda’s command of the spoken word made her one of Pakistan’s most luminous voices on language, history and humanism ...