urdu
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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
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A new book featuring Urdu writer Joginder Paul combines his own work with writings about him
Joginder Paul
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Verses of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz dropped from CBSE Class 10 textbook: Report
Scroll Staff
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Where’s that book of Urdu poetry when the occasion needs a sher? At last we have one
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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‘Sin’: These stories are from the old-world aristocracy of Hyderabad in the 1950s
Wajida Tabassum
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‘Parasite’: Read the story that co-won the Jawad Memorial Prize 2021 for Urdu-to-English translation
Bilal Hasan Minto Bilal Tanweer
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BHU Urdu department head apologises for using poet Allama Iqbal’s photo on poster after controversy
Scroll Staff
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From love songs to kurta ads, Urdu is popular with Indians. Why do Hindutva backers hate it so much?
Shoaib Daniyal
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This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors
Prerna Vij
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‘Beyond the Stars’: Stories Qurratulain Hyder wrote in her teens
Qurratulain Hyder
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How the Partition contributed to the ‘queerness’ of Urdu poetry to make it non-normative
Priya Satia
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What was daily life like for royalty in the Red Fort? This book provides a fascinating commentary
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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BJP’s use of ‘begum’ and ‘shahzada’ to attack its opponents conceals a larger attack on Muslims
Rizwan Ahmad
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‘Dust of the Caravan’ is a Muslim woman’s unique personal and political memoir
Anis Kidwai
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‘Nai Duniya’: Why Shamshur Rahman Faruqi strove to build a new world for literature and language
Rizwan Ahmad
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Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1935-2020): Why this death leaves a permanent patch of darkness in literature
Maaz Bin Bilal
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Urdu poet Shamsur Rahman Faruqi dies at 85
Scroll Staff
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This book celebrates the composite culture of India that gave birth to and nurtured the Urdu ghazal
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui