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Emotional directness, common man’s language: What made Urdu poet Bashir Badr (1935-2026) great
Amitabha Bagchi
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Translated short fiction: Jameel’s outspoken servant, Nazru, puts him in a sticky situation
Muhammad Hasan Askari Mehr Afshan Farooqui
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Madhya Pradesh HC quashes FIR against teacher who shared Urdu poem as WhatsApp status
Scroll Staff
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‘I have a natural attachment to Urdu’: Punjabi poet Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi writes in his memoir
Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi 'Sahar' Kamna Prasad
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This biography of Wajid Ali Shah depicts him as a dancer and a master of the performing arts
Kaukub Quder Sajjad Ali Meerza Talat Fatima
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World Poetry Day: Passion, migration, and spiritual geography in the Urdu poet Iftikhar Arif’s poems
Amir Suhail Wani
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Love in Chakiwara and Other Misadventures’, an author laughs at himself
Sayari Debnath
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From the memoir: Poet Akhtarul Iman on the conflict between Urdu writers’ groups in India
Akhtarul Iman Baidar Bakht
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A low-grade fever, a relentless sadness: Being Muslim in the New India that is Bharat
Rakhshanda Jalil
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‘Whose Urdu Is It Anyway?’: An important anthology that holds multiple identities in easy balance
Saloni Sharma
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This essay is a co-winner of the 2025 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation
Scroll Staff
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‘The Chinese Mansion’: A deft magical realism novel about a lawyer’s insecurities and inner demons
Divya Shankar
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Born on this day: Urdu poet Josh Malihabadi (1898-1982) was a fiery voice of freedom
Hilal Fareed
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Translated short fiction: An elderly couple looks after each other with ulterior motives
Razia Sajjad Zaheer Saba Mahmood Bashir
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‘The Book of Death’: Khalid Jawed’s novella ruminates on the futility of life and the writer’s role
Sonakshi Srivastava
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Translated fiction: A boy sees a dragon slipping into his bedroom – an image he’ll never forget
Siddique Alam Jaideep Pandey
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Fiction: A researcher devoted to ancient manuscripts sets out to decipher a madman’s diary
Khalid Jawed A Naseeb Khan
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‘Wayward Verses’: Sanjiv Saraf’s anthology brings Urdu poetry beyond unrequited love
Shafey Kidwai
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From colonial Lahore, a flashback to when Urdu, Persian and Sanskrit were taught side-by-side
Vipin Krishna
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Why Kashmir is worried about the sidelining of Urdu
Safwat Zargar