‘Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times’ engages with critical issues and offers no easy solutions

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· Jan 28, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sana R Chaudhry wins the 2023 Mozhi Prize for translation

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· Jan 17, 2024 · 03:56 pm

‘Tu Hai Kahan’: Star singer Zayn Malik sings his first-ever Urdu song with Pakistani band AUR

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· Jan 15, 2024 · 04:26 pm

A new book of Urdu short stories in translation reveals contemporary Kolkata in unexpected ways

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· Jan 03, 2024 · 05:30 pm

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

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· Dec 10, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Fiction: William’s dream of returning changes not only his destiny but also the land

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· Oct 05, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Embarking on the divine: On translating the Urdu poet Jaun Elia

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· Sep 03, 2023 · 03:30 pm

‘Tired of living and angry with death’: Mir Taqi Mir’s Urdu verses from the Murty Classical Library

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· Aug 22, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Urdu novel ‘Allah Miyan Ka Karkhana’ wins 2023 Bank of Baroda award for translations into Hindi

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· Jun 14, 2023 · 11:55 am

Why do young readers and social media find Jaun Elia's poetry so relevant today?

Ammar Aziz

· May 21, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘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

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· 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