‘Beloved Delhi’: This book explores how Dilli became the city of poets, and of Urdu

Saif Mahmood

· Sep 12, 2018 · 08:00 am

He wrote the lyrics of ‘Umrao Jaan’. Was the Urdu poet Shahryar a progressive or a modernist?

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Aug 24, 2018 · 08:30 am

Ibne Safi, unlikely combination of poet and pulp fiction writer, would have been 90 this year

Ibne Safi

· Jul 26, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Surging Hindi, shrinking South Indian languages: Nine charts that explain the 2011 language census

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jul 04, 2018 · 07:30 am

From Urdu to English: Translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi chronicles his journey

Ilona Yusuf

· Jun 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Two novellas reacquaint us with the finest Urdu writer of our time, Intizar Husain

Annie Zaidi

· Jun 09, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Writer-storyteller Ankit Chadha dies after drowning in lake near Pune

Scroll Staff

· May 11, 2018 · 11:07 am

‘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