While Bengali is primarily derived from Magadhi Prakrit, over the years, the language has taken on new forms, ranging from ...

On Monday, April 21, his birth anniversary which is observed as 'Saadi Shirazi Day', the Iran Culture House, Mumbai, and Urdu ...

By Asad Mirza Last week, a Supreme Court bench’s observation on the use of Urdu, has once again opened a pandora’s box, on ...

Iqbal, who wrote ‘Saare Jahan Se Achha’ in 1904, was advocating for a Muslim-majority state by 1930s. This ideological pivot ...

Cheap and incorrect WhatsApp poetry may have kindled people's interest in Urdu, but it hasn't made much inroads into ... A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 15, underscored that Urdu is not an alien language but an integral part of India’s cultural and linguistic heritage. Calling it “the finest specimen of ...

“Very few people are familiar with Urdu literature, even through poetry. There were forms such as the qasida — used to praise someone or a marsiya, a song of sorrow that have faded out,” he say ...

Lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar, in a conversation with India Today, spoke about the revival of poetry through social media, and how digital platforms have made Urdu poetry accessible to a ...

Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his Bengali and poetry and prose. Urdu was not ... presidential palace and establish an Islamic state. Taliban's interpretation ...