Urdu
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‘Confining a language to a nationality is narrow-minded’: JCB-Prize-winning translator Baran Farooqi
Sayari Debnath
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FIR against Bareilly school principal after students recite Muhammad Iqbal’s poem in morning prayer
Scroll Staff
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‘My Dear Teacher’: The winning piece of the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation 2022
Julien Columeau Sana R Chaudhry
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‘Thrice marginalised’: Writer Nazia Akhtar on Urdu women writers of Hyderabad
Mallik Thatipalli
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‘The Monkey’s Wound and Other Stories’: How women rebel against the cruel structures of patriarchy
Areeb Ahmad
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‘Bibi’s Room’ is a crucial step towards acknowledging Urdu women writers of 20th century Hyderabad
Saloni Sharma
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How the English department of Aligarh Muslim University nurtured contemporary Urdu literature
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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How Urdu scholar Gopi Chand Narang (1931-2022) advocated for the language as a ‘civilisational gain’
Rizwan Ahmad
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‘The Paradise of Food’: Horror lurks in kitchen corners in Khalid Jawed’s fiction of hostility
Saloni Sharma
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A new book featuring Urdu writer Joginder Paul combines his own work with writings about him
Joginder Paul
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Verses of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz dropped from CBSE Class 10 textbook: Report
Scroll Staff
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Where’s that book of Urdu poetry when the occasion needs a sher? At last we have one
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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‘Sin’: These stories are from the old-world aristocracy of Hyderabad in the 1950s
Wajida Tabassum
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‘Parasite’: Read the story that co-won the Jawad Memorial Prize 2021 for Urdu-to-English translation
Bilal Hasan Minto Bilal Tanweer
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BHU Urdu department head apologises for using poet Allama Iqbal’s photo on poster after controversy
Scroll Staff
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From love songs to kurta ads, Urdu is popular with Indians. Why do Hindutva backers hate it so much?
Shoaib Daniyal
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This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors
Prerna Vij
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‘Beyond the Stars’: Stories Qurratulain Hyder wrote in her teens
Qurratulain Hyder
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How the Partition contributed to the ‘queerness’ of Urdu poetry to make it non-normative
Priya Satia
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What was daily life like for royalty in the Red Fort? This book provides a fascinating commentary
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui