Listen: A poem and qawwali celebrate Diwali – but classical compositions about the festival are rare

Aneesh Pradhan

· Nov 10, 2018 · 06:00 am

From Bulleh Shah to Asia Bibi, caste discrimination still runs deep in Pakistan’s Punjab

Haroon Khalid

· Nov 09, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Not just the last Mughal: Three ghazals by Bahadur Shah Zafar, the poet king

Bahadur Shah Zafar Maaz Bin Bilal

· Nov 07, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘You have to be very humble’: How Neerja Mattoo translates from Kashmiri to English

Niyati Bhat

· Oct 28, 2018 · 08:30 am

With his ashes immersed in the Ravi in Pakistan, Kuldip Nayar becomes one with the river’s legends

Haroon Khalid

· Oct 12, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Subversive in verse: How Delhi’s Urdu poets once challenged emperors and clerics

Malini Nair

· Oct 08, 2018 · 11:30 am

A far cry from Adityanath’s Hindutva, the Nath Yogi tradition has a history of religious pluralism

Hammad Khan

· Oct 07, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Saif Mahmood’s book shows us we cannot know Delhi today until we knows its poets from yesterday

Anand V Taneja

· Oct 06, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Women not allowed: How patriarchy rules Pakistan’s Sufi shrines that also celebrate the feminine

Haroon Khalid

· Oct 05, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Glimpses of ‘Divan-i-Hijri’, a book of poems in the collection of Humayun’s wife Hamidah Banu

Ursula Sims-Williams

· Sep 29, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Through markers of identity and layered personal references, an Indian artist explores belonging

Zeenat Nagree

· Sep 21, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Amit Trivedi’s ‘Manmarziyaan’ soundtrack has something for everyone

Devarsi Ghosh

· Sep 20, 2018 · 08:15 am

Modi’s Muslim outreach, Rahul Gandhi’s Hindu card: Will they be seen as more than mere tokenism?

Anita Katyal

· Sep 18, 2018 · 07:30 am

Listen: Rajasthani classic ‘Kesariya Baalam’ crosses musical borders with these four varied takes

Aneesh Pradhan

· Sep 15, 2018 · 07:00 am

Pakistan Coke Studio’s latest season teased a televised revolution – but it soon fizzled out

Haroon Khalid

· Sep 14, 2018 · 06:30 pm

The legacy of Guru Nanak lives on in four historic gurdwaras in Pakistan’s Punjab

Haroon Khalid

· Sep 07, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s 19th-century books on the pre-1857 monuments of Delhi are now in English

Sayyid Ahmad Khan Rana Safvi

· Aug 31, 2018 · 08:30 am

In Lahore’s shadow lie the remnants of a great multicultural city lost to Partition

Haroon Khalid

· Aug 17, 2018 · 06:30 pm

The Daily Fix: Kerala needs more than a Band-aid to survive annual monsoon miseries

TA Ameerudheen

· Aug 10, 2018 · 09:28 am

Once Delhi’s cultural nerve centre, Mandi House is being challenged by new experimental theatres

Malini Nair

· Aug 09, 2018 · 11:30 am