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‘Confining a language to a nationality is narrow-minded’: JCB-Prize-winning translator Baran Farooqi

Sayari Debnath
· Feb 19, 2023 · 07:30 am
FIR against Bareilly school principal after students recite Muhammad Iqbal’s poem in morning prayer

Scroll Staff
· Dec 23, 2022 · 10:31 am
‘My Dear Teacher’: The winning piece of the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation 2022

Julien Columeau Sana R Chaudhry
· Dec 17, 2022 · 12:30 pm
‘Thrice marginalised’: Writer Nazia Akhtar on Urdu women writers of Hyderabad

Mallik Thatipalli
· Nov 26, 2022 · 05:30 pm
‘The Monkey’s Wound and Other Stories’: How women rebel against the cruel structures of patriarchy

Areeb Ahmad
· Oct 30, 2022 · 12:30 pm
‘Bibi’s Room’ is a crucial step towards acknowledging Urdu women writers of 20th century Hyderabad

Saloni Sharma
· Oct 22, 2022 · 05:30 pm
How the English department of Aligarh Muslim University nurtured contemporary Urdu literature

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
· Oct 09, 2022 · 12:30 pm
How Urdu scholar Gopi Chand Narang (1931-2022) advocated for the language as a ‘civilisational gain’

Rizwan Ahmad
· Jun 21, 2022 · 08:30 am
‘The Paradise of Food’: Horror lurks in kitchen corners in Khalid Jawed’s fiction of hostility

Saloni Sharma
· Jun 04, 2022 · 05:30 pm
A new book featuring Urdu writer Joginder Paul combines his own work with writings about him

Joginder Paul
· May 18, 2022 · 08:30 am
Verses of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz dropped from CBSE Class 10 textbook: Report

Scroll Staff
· Apr 23, 2022 · 11:13 am
Where’s that book of Urdu poetry when the occasion needs a sher? At last we have one

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
· Apr 17, 2022 · 12:30 pm
‘Sin’: These stories are from the old-world aristocracy of Hyderabad in the 1950s

Wajida Tabassum
· Feb 23, 2022 · 05:30 pm
‘Parasite’: Read the story that co-won the Jawad Memorial Prize 2021 for Urdu-to-English translation

Bilal Hasan Minto Bilal Tanweer
· Dec 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm
BHU Urdu department head apologises for using poet Allama Iqbal’s photo on poster after controversy

Scroll Staff
· Nov 10, 2021 · 02:02 pm
From love songs to kurta ads, Urdu is popular with Indians. Why do Hindutva backers hate it so much?

Shoaib Daniyal
· Oct 24, 2021 · 09:00 am
This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors

Prerna Vij
· Sep 05, 2021 · 12:30 pm
‘Beyond the Stars’: Stories Qurratulain Hyder wrote in her teens

Qurratulain Hyder
· Sep 01, 2021 · 05:30 pm
How the Partition contributed to the ‘queerness’ of Urdu poetry to make it non-normative

Priya Satia
· Jul 26, 2021 · 08:30 am
What was daily life like for royalty in the Red Fort? This book provides a fascinating commentary

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
· Jul 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm