Oral historian Sohail Hashmi into a new wave of dissent in Urdu poetry at a Delhi workshop earlier this month. ‘It’s asking ...

‘There’s not a single Muslim student’ here. Sidra village has become the region’s Urdu ‘influencer’. Sidra (Tonk): A village ...

In this book of essays, Rakhshanda Jalil shines a light on the inclusive and pluralistic nature of Urdu poetry ...

There are quite a few striking moments in Sreemoyee Singh’s personal-meets-political documentary And, Towards Happy Alleys (currently streaming on Mubi), where ...

Every second Saturday, Ghalib Academy in Delhi hosts a poetry recital with free chai and samosas, welcoming poets from diverse backgrounds.

To say Rupi Kaur’s collection, “Milk and Honey,” is mediocre would be an understatement. Yet, it is impossible to deny her ...

Nusrat “would just say, ‘Wave in the window when you want us to stop,’ because they could go on for two hours,” he recalled of the sessions. On “Ya Gaus Ya Meeran,” Khan’s Urdu ...

love, war, memories, and nature. Coins in Rivers thus carries a deeper sense of contemporariness where the poet explores the world through her personalised poetic vision. These poems do not ...

On how India’s first openly gay poet, Hoshang Merchant has created an entire tradition of interdisciplinary literary and ...

Living in Ireland means you’re blessed with daily poetry in the most mundane of interactions ... To my great shame, I can’t speak Irish fluently, but I love how it stubbornly shows up in ...