Urdu poetry is often considered synonymous with love. Various shades of love, ranging from physical to metaphysical; all the nuances of the experience of love, ranging from disappointment to ...

A bilingual book, Three Stories From Gulistan-e-Saadi, for children and adults will be launched today (Sunday) by Joy of Urdu — a volunteer-run, bilingual organisation working to promote Urdu language ...

Engineers at NED University of Engineering and Technology claim to have developed an Artificial Intelligence-powered application that brings Urdu books to life. The app can convert printed Urdu text ...

A few months ago, at the launch of a book of Urdu poems—Hukm E Safar Diya Tha Kyon by Shantiveer Kaul—a poet in his mid-60s said he rarely got a chance to attend such events now because “ab us peedhi ...

Nestled in Chandni Chowk, one of the city’s oldest and busiest markets, the Urdu Bazaar seems like a fading relic of Delhi’s rich cultural heritage. The bazaar dedicated to Urdu literature, which once ...

“THOSE who have money do not read and those who read do not have money,” was the mantra one of my friends used to utter whenever visiting a book fair and feeling depressed because of being unable to ...

The book titled “H.H. Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Man of an Era” focuses mainly on the achievements of the great Arab leader who has changed the face of the Middle East, particularly the UAE.

The 26th National Urdu Book Fair, held from January 6 to 14 at the MMRDA grounds in BKC, has something for everyone—among the 300,000 books at the 185 stalls, there are poetry, literature, philosophy, ...

Till the late 1990s, there were more than 100 Urdu publishers in Delhi, most based in the walled city, bringing out hundreds of titles every year – fiction, non-fiction, biographies and children’s ...

Urdu books are experiencing an overwhelming response at the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair, with the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) reporting tremendous demand. Director ...

Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...

Sheikh Mohammad, under the pen-name Manzoor, wrote at a time when the first printed books were coming out in India. That Urdu would grow into a pan-Indian language was also not in his wildest ...