Supreme Court verdict allowing Urdu signage reaffirms that India is a multilingual democracy

John Simte

· Apr 17, 2025 · 09:00 am

‘Urdu not alien to India’: SC upholds use of language on municipal signboard in Maharashtra

Scroll Staff

· Apr 16, 2025 · 09:12 am

Translated short fiction: Malka Begum is not impressed by what she sees on a trip to Delhi

Rashid Jahan Rakhshanda Jalil

· Mar 24, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Row in Rajasthan after state minister claims Urdu teachers got jobs using fake degrees

Scroll Staff

· Feb 18, 2025 · 06:12 pm

Born on this day: Remembering Faiz Ahmad Faiz and his poetry of passion

Amir Suhail Wani

· Feb 13, 2025 · 08:30 am

The cost of lost integrity in Osama Siddique’s ‘Ghuroob-e-Shehr Ka Waqt’ and ‘Snuffing Out the Moon’

Nikhil Kumar

· Feb 02, 2025 · 07:30 am

‘The Story of Eve’: Zehra Nigah’s poetry makes the reader feel heard and understood

Ipshita Mitra

· Jan 25, 2025 · 07:30 am

Sunday book pick: Empathetic and nuanced stories of animal-human conflict in ‘The Mirror of Wonders’

Sayari Debnath

· Jan 05, 2025 · 08:00 am

Translated short stories: An Indian pilot reminisces about her relationship with a Pakistani man

Joginder Paul Haris Qadeer

· Jan 03, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘There was no loss, no gain’: This new book is an essential guide to understanding Ghalib’s couplets

Mirza Ghalib Anisur Rahman

· Dec 27, 2024 · 05:30 pm

227 years of Mirza Ghalib: How the mystic poet rethought the concept of ‘man’ in his couplets

Amir Suhail Wani

· Dec 27, 2024 · 01:30 pm

2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the winning poems

Scroll Staff

· Dec 20, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Darkness has spread, prudence is lost’: Read Urdu poet Zehra Nigah’s poems in translation

Zehra Nigah Rakhshanda Jalil

· Nov 15, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Mirza Farhatullah Baig’s Urdu novel ‘Dehli Ki Aakhri Shama’ recreates Delhi’s lost poetic heritage

Khawar Khan Achakzai

· Sep 29, 2024 · 08:30 am

Urdu schools left in lurch by CBSE decision to allow board exams in only English, Hindi

Scroll Staff

· Sep 20, 2024 · 03:26 pm

‘An act of dancing in chains’: Ranjit Hoskote on the ‘luxury of interpretation’ in translation

Tansy Troy

· Sep 01, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘You’re a poet, don’t be silent’: Ranjit Hoskote translates ‘god of poetry’ Mir Taqi Mir from Urdu

Mir Taqi Mir Ranjit Hoskote

· Aug 23, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘On the Other Side’: The good and the bad Muslim, and the Urdu language that just wants to exist

Rahul Singh

· Jul 28, 2024 · 03:30 pm

‘Love in the Time of Hate’: Rakhshanda Jalil’s book is a loving tribute to the Urdu language

Uma Nair

· Jul 20, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Fiction: The psychological dilemmas of a liberal man living in an orthodox Muslim society

Rahman Abbas Riyaz Latif

· Jul 08, 2024 · 05:30 pm