The bard of Bhopal always warbled a new melody. He settled on the banks of Yamuna, but the Upper Lake always lingered in his ...

Urdu literary groups have welcomed the Supreme Court's judgment on Urdu, calling it a language rooted in India and as Indian ...

Soon he established a publishing house, named Sangam, in collaboration with the renowned poet Firaq Gorakhpuri. But the publishing house went bust and he had to join education department in Bombay.

NEW DELHI: Whether it was the Gandhi family, the Congress worker, the man on the street, or the woman in the metro, Delhi stood up in applause and mourning on Saturday to say a final goodbye to ...

It was the chosen language of both Muslim poets like Mir Taqi Mir and Ghalib, and Hindu poets like Raghupati Sahay ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri. Even in day-to-day life, Urdu expressions permeated the ...

All great educational institutions we venerated are shadows of what they once were, and the entire attention is on what a Mughal emperor did The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started ...

That his philosophy, tested against the fires of Partition, was reduced to a whisper? Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee rips apart the sanitised mythology to reveal the raw, complex, and deeply ...

To add another lens to the event, I will refer briefly to two accounts – one intellectual and long-distant one and the other a direct witness – of the killings in Calcutta, from Nirad C ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The shortlist of the International Booker Prize 2025 was announced last week; Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp (And Other Stories), a ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The shortlist of the International Booker Prize 2025 was announced last week; Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp (And Other Stories), a ...

An excerpt from ‘Rain Dogs,’ by Rohit Chawla.