Past Tense Ahon Gooptu’s new play Labor Day Reunion is set in 2006 Chicago, it follows three friends and a nurse navigating ...

You know him as Sunil Gangopadhyay. I was familiar with his stories; then acquainted myself with his poems, and aft er that met with his novels. A very musically tuned soul, brimming with aff ection.

Subhash K Jha curates a special list of 8 brilliant films to watch for this festive weekend. Silvat (2018): Playing a Muslim ...

Here, the willow tree symbolises despair, yet Ghalib tempers it with a sense of possibility, reflecting his nuanced approach to the interplay of love ... poetry, the classical writers of the Urdu ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes ... Jalil’s labour of love consists of using shayari aphoristically, of taking ...

Noted literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s latest book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, recently released in New Delhi, delves into the rich history of Urdu poetry. It demonstrates ...

Drawing inspiration from Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 thriller, “Persona,” the treatment weaves an imagistic love story between ... a form of Urdu poetry that incorporates themes of longing and ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans What’s your love language? For young people in India ...

So does a certain kind of passion, which borders on lunacy coupled with a celebration of deep, selfless love. From Laila ... The four collections of Urdu poetry that I wish to mention now reflect ...

Maktaba Jamia is a spacious, well-stocked bookstore. From Ghalib to Sahir to Manto to Ismat, it boasts a diverse collection of Urdu fiction, poetry, and drama, and people from across India and ...

Kharel also loves basketball and Urdu poetry. Guided by his mentor Syed Akbar Hyder, an associate professor of Asian Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, he is a fluent ...

Amir Muqam has said the translation of American poetry in Urdu is not just a literary work but actually another loop in the chain of friendship Pakistan has with the US that further ... adding that ...