Urdu
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Ibne Safi, unlikely combination of poet and pulp fiction writer, would have been 90 this year
Ibne Safi
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Surging Hindi, shrinking South Indian languages: Nine charts that explain the 2011 language census
Shoaib Daniyal
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From Urdu to English: Translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi chronicles his journey
Ilona Yusuf
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Two novellas reacquaint us with the finest Urdu writer of our time, Intizar Husain
Annie Zaidi
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Writer-storyteller Ankit Chadha dies after drowning in lake near Pune
Scroll Staff
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‘Biswin Sadi’: How I came of age in the 1960s with long-gone Urdu magazines and books of the time
Jamil Urfi
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Meet Imran Pratapgarhi, the rockstar poet who draws tens of thousands of fans at Urdu mushairas
Wasi Manazir
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Punjab, the Urdu literary hub of Pakistan, is slowly waking up to its lost Punjabi identity
Haroon Khalid
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The adventures of a Lucknowi flaneur should be required reading in Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh
Malini Nair
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This is how Urdu poets marked, and remembered, India’s Republic Day
Rakhshanda Jalil
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They don’t make poets, translators and performers like Anwar Jalalpuri (1947-2018) anymore
Rakhshanda Jalil
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BSP corporator booked in Aligarh after insisting on taking his oath in Urdu
Scroll Staff
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In Pakistan, Punjab has set an example by removing hate from its school textbooks
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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‘What lies beyond the fog?’ A variety never seen before in a collection of Urdu stories
Maaz Bin Bilal
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Urdu declared the second official language in Telangana
Scroll Staff
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This is the book that lovers of Urdu literature needed, to understand its history
Rana Safvi
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‘The Pose’: Anwer Khan’s short story is one of the 25 greatest in Urdu, says an anthologist
Anwer Khan
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Born on India’s future Independence Day, Ismat Chughtai wrote of the world she saw, not aspired to
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Why it is impossible to think of Urdu poetry without thinking of India’s journey to (and after) 1947
Rakhshanda Jalil
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Pragmatism, Marxism, and a Western orientation: The three nodes of the Progressive Writers’ Movement
Syed Nomanul Haq