‘Biswin Sadi’: How I came of age in the 1960s with long-gone Urdu magazines and books of the time

Jamil Urfi

· May 04, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Meet Imran Pratapgarhi, the rockstar poet who draws tens of thousands of fans at Urdu mushairas

Wasi Manazir

· Apr 25, 2018 · 11:30 am

Punjab, the Urdu literary hub of Pakistan, is slowly waking up to its lost Punjabi identity

Haroon Khalid

· Mar 02, 2018 · 12:30 pm

The adventures of a Lucknowi flaneur should be required reading in Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh

Malini Nair

· Feb 07, 2018 · 11:30 am

This is how Urdu poets marked, and remembered, India’s Republic Day

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Jan 26, 2018 · 08:30 am

They don’t make poets, translators and performers like Anwar Jalalpuri (1947-2018) anymore

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Jan 04, 2018 · 08:30 am

BSP corporator booked in Aligarh after insisting on taking his oath in Urdu

Scroll Staff

· Dec 14, 2017 · 08:11 pm

In Pakistan, Punjab has set an example by removing hate from its school textbooks

Pervez Hoodbhoy

· Nov 28, 2017 · 07:30 pm

‘What lies beyond the fog?’ A variety never seen before in a collection of Urdu stories

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Nov 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

Urdu declared the second official language in Telangana

Scroll Staff

· Nov 10, 2017 · 04:43 pm

This is the book that lovers of Urdu literature needed, to understand its history

Rana Safvi

· Sep 09, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘The Pose’: Anwer Khan’s short story is one of the 25 greatest in Urdu, says an anthologist

Anwer Khan

· Aug 27, 2017 · 08:30 am

Born on India’s future Independence Day, Ismat Chughtai wrote of the world she saw, not aspired to

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Aug 15, 2017 · 08:30 am

Why it is impossible to think of Urdu poetry without thinking of India’s journey to (and after) 1947

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Aug 15, 2017 · 05:30 am

Pragmatism, Marxism, and a Western orientation: The three nodes of the Progressive Writers’ Movement

Syed Nomanul Haq

· Jul 16, 2017 · 09:30 pm

In the narrow lanes of Old Delhi, a unique and flavoursome dialect of Urdu is going extinct

Malini Nair

· Jun 26, 2017 · 11:30 am

Between Patriotism, Partition and Pakistan, here’s how Faiz Ahmed Faiz became a poet

Baran Farooqi

· Jun 13, 2017 · 08:30 am

Pem Nem: A 16th-century Urdu romance goes online

Nur Sobers-Khan

· Jun 11, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Video: This cool music lesson is a fine beginning to the month of Ramzan

Scroll Staff

· May 28, 2017 · 10:00 am

Seventy years on, a fraught question still troubles Pakistan: Should Urdu be its official language?

Ali Raj

· May 27, 2017 · 11:30 am