Hear, Hear A street-side ear cleaner attends to a kulfiwala at Dadar Chowpatty—the better to hear you with when you call out ...

A Mumbai-based collective’s experimental videos transform surveillance tools and TV networks into community-driven devices.

Khan’s stature was such that he was sometimes spoken about in the same terms as the saints he venerated through his music, the lyrics of which are drawn from Sufi poetry. His Pakistani biography ...

He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his powerful renditions of romantic and revolutionary songs, primarily in Sindhi and occasionally in Urdu. According to local ... He sang the poetry of Sheikh ...

But, despite her growing repertoire in English, the love for Urdu-Hindustani poetry never left. “While I wrote professionally in English, I was always writing poetry in Hindustani for myself. Besides ...

Apart from his share of highs and lows, Rajiv will also be remembered for lacing his press conferences with Urdu couplets to make his point. “Kar na sakein ikraar toh koi baat nahi, meri wafa ka ...

LAHORE: The Alhamra Art Centre, Mall Road, was festooned with big panaflexes bearing images and verses of Faiz ... saying his poetry is for everyone and that he wrote for the downtrodden and ...

As the debate over Hindi imposition intensifies, Tamil Nadu’s resistance highlights deeper issues of linguistic identity, ...

Annual awards recognise writers of novels, short stories, poetry, essays ... Tabish received the award for his criticism in Urdu. The awardees each received a plaque, a shawl and ₹1 lakh.

When AT merged with Awami National Party, Ansari became its provincial general secretary but then quit politics in the 90s and devoted himself to poetry, he said. Ansari had lately been using his ...

An important character like Hombirrao Mohite (Ashutosh Rana) becomes a victim of choppy scissors and the bite of the poetry of Kavi ... A cliched mess of Hindi and Urdu, dialogues are there ...