Many of the popular Urdu masnavis are love stories, for example, Naseem’s ‘Gulzar-i-Naseem’ and Mir Hasan Dehlvi’s ...

Art historian Ranjit Hoskote shared translations of Mir’s verses on social media, as part of ‘Project Mir’, which later took ...

Once sneered at by the previous regime as an attempt to revive Urdu, Qawwali appears to have found a new lease of life in ...

Intriguing indeed, is the title of the book, that opens one side in the Devanagari script and the other in the Nastaliq, in a ...

A fine example of her poetic talent is the poem Rukhsat, which she wrote on the occasion of her daughter Sabiha’s wedding.

He wrote ‘Jab dil hi toot gaya’ for ‘Shahjehan’, which singer KL Saigal liked so much that he wanted it to be played at his ...

Serving the nation since 1947 by providing an accurate, objective, uninterrupted flow of news to the people, the national ...

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Clad in smartly stitched sherwani and pyjama, Baba Siddiqui and Zeeshan Siddiqui, father and son, stood at the heavy security ...

Nobody does sound design like the Pakistani-raised singer and producer, whose new album is ‘about being flirty and crazy’ and ...

The subscribers of the national postal service complain of the snail-paced delivery of their posts. Mostly, the posts are ...

In a world corrupted by authoritarianism and the politics of religious extremism, do I have enough words to talk about GN ...