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In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

Haider, 45, is not just a friend of a celebrated Bollywood singer — he is a renowned Urdu poet whose mellifluous renditions have warmed the hearts of diplomats and star international cricketers and ...

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The bard of Bhopal always warbled a new melody. He settled on the banks of Yamuna, but the Upper Lake always lingered in his ...

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On Monday, April 21, his birth anniversary which is observed as 'Saadi Shirazi Day', the Iran Culture House, Mumbai, and Urdu ...

It’s after 13 years that Mishra has come up with a poetry book Vibhas ... one on veteran writer-poet Gulzar as well as a book on late ghazal legend Begum Akhtar. “My biopics gave me lot ...

Some of his poems lack ... in his ghazals,” Mr Yousafzai remarked. Prof Gulzar Jalal Yousafzai, chairman PAL’s Peshawar chapter, observed that late writer’s Urdu book ‘Pashtun Kaun ...

A poignant reflection on the closure of Srinagar’s iconic bookstore, revealing how Kashmir’s literary sanctuaries are ...