This summer I was awarded a GCSE in Urdu. I’m now inching ... from her edited collection of fiction, The Inner Courtyard (1990). This is surprising, given the books’ matching titles and ...

The world we live in is a wasteland of words, but reading poetry reminds us that language can be used with precision and ...

Through his masterful blending of historical fiction and ... professor of Urdu at Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University in Kanpur, India, and the author of three books.

On the reading list this week is an exemplary selection of Mirza Ghalib’s Urdu couplets, translated into English along with critical commentaries, a book featuring ornithologists, naturalists ...

ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books. Anisur Rahman is a distinguished literary critic, translator, and bilingual poet in English and Urdu. Formerly a professor at Jamia ...

The Banaras Lit Fest Book Awards 2025 longlist has been announced ... and The Homeland’s an Ocean by Mir Taqi Mir, translated from Urdu by Ranjit Hoskote. For fiction lovers, the longlist features The ...

The book that opened that door was “In Custody” (1984), an elegy for the rarefied, male world of Urdu poetry that captured ... to reimagine Mexico in her fiction. When she came upon the ...

Arun Kamal is presently immersed in the writing of five distinct upcoming literary works. These encompass a compilation of his poetry book, a collection of insightful literary essays, a series of ...

The Urdu newspaper Pratap – and its Hindi counterpart ... until it was shut down in 2017. This book chronicles the exciting lives of the newspapers, their founder and his sons, as well as ...

Among other qualities, Chess develops patience, concentration, pattern recognition, rational thinking, and imagination. Many schools and state governments in India having realized the benefits of ...

Coffee table book ‘The Tribute’ authored by veteran journalist Shaikh Aziz (d. 2018), gives a whirlwind tour of the lives and ...