Urdu
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Poetry picks: Read Ishrat Afreen’s feminist Urdu poetry in translation
Ishrat Afreen Hitesh Gupta Aadil
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‘Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times’ engages with critical issues and offers no easy solutions
Saloni Sharma
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Sana R Chaudhry wins the 2023 Mozhi Prize for translation
Scroll Staff
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‘Tu Hai Kahan’: Star singer Zayn Malik sings his first-ever Urdu song with Pakistani band AUR
Scroll Staff
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A new book of Urdu short stories in translation reveals contemporary Kolkata in unexpected ways
Mahmoud Yasien Afif Shams Siddiqi
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Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the two winning poems
Scroll Staff
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Fiction: William’s dream of returning changes not only his destiny but also the land
Ali Akbar Natiq Naima Rashid
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Embarking on the divine: On translating the Urdu poet Jaun Elia
Ammar Aziz
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‘Tired of living and angry with death’: Mir Taqi Mir’s Urdu verses from the Murty Classical Library
Mir Taqi Mir Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
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Urdu novel ‘Allah Miyan Ka Karkhana’ wins 2023 Bank of Baroda award for translations into Hindi
Scroll Staff
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Why do young readers and social media find Jaun Elia's poetry so relevant today?
Ammar Aziz
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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