Persian
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Victorian scholar Annette S Beveridge’s long road to translating Gulbadan Begum’s ‘Humayun Nama’
Ruby Lal
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‘Discard your ego-self. Begin the journey’: Read 12th-century Persian poet Attar in English
Attar Sholeh Wolpé
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Rajasthan police told to remove Urdu, Persian words from official documents, replace them with Hindi
Scroll Staff
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‘The Beloved is my eternal sun’: A new translation of Rumi’s poetry and parables by Farrukh Dhondy
Rumi Farrukh Dhondy
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Persian prose meets pulp fiction: How an 18th-century fairy tale became a multilingual phenomenon
Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammed Abdul Aleem
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Clean chit, taluka, zilla: How Persian lingers on in India’s legal and revenue language
Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammad Dawood
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How an unusual Persian ghazal links the music of Kundan Lal Saigal, Iqbal Bano and Coke Studio
Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammad Dawood
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How the modern Persian qawwali canon emerged from an Uttarakhand shrine 90 years ago
Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammad Dawood
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How Indo-Persian, the language of cosmopolitan India for six centuries, fell into decline
Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammad Dawood
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In illustrations: The stories that are common to the Qurʼan and the Bible
Ursula Sims-Williams
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This Sanskrit epic, derived from a Persian work, brings together figures from many religions
AND Haksar
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Why is Persian dying out in India, despite its deep roots? An Iranian finds the answer in Kolkata
Maryam Papi
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Dr SM Yunus Jaffery (1930-2016): The teacher of Persian
Margrit Pernau
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Delhi's great Persian scholar has died – and with him, an entire line of learning
William Dalrymple
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Furballs and snobbery: The odd and delightful world of an Indian cat show
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan