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How a Sinhalese writer and an Urdu translator collaborated without knowing each other’s language
Ajmal Kamal
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By creating Urdu covers for English record albums, a Pakistani artist has found herself
Senna Ahmad, Dawn.com
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Can men write convincingly about women in fiction? This collection of Urdu stories shows how
Ipshita Nath
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Urdu and Hindi could be one language called Hindustani. Will the politics of language allow it?
David Lunn, Dawn.com
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‘My mutiny is against patriarchy': Watch this young Urdu poet take on criticism of 'immodest’ women
Scroll Staff
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A new book shows us ways to read Shahryar’s life in his poetry, and poetry in his life
Nikhil Govind
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Subversive in verse: How Delhi’s Urdu poets once challenged emperors and clerics
Malini Nair
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Saif Mahmood’s book shows us we cannot know Delhi today until we knows its poets from yesterday
Anand V Taneja
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‘Beloved Delhi’: This book explores how Dilli became the city of poets, and of Urdu
Saif Mahmood
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He wrote the lyrics of ‘Umrao Jaan’. Was the Urdu poet Shahryar a progressive or a modernist?
Rakhshanda Jalil
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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