While Rekha’s Umrao Jaan reclaims the spotlight, here are some timeless Urdu novels that deserve their own cinematic close-up ...

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Eminent Urdu scholar, author, and translator CM Naim passed away at 89 on Wednesday in Chicago. Naim’s nearly six-decade-long ...

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CM Naim’s translation of 19th-century reformer Ashrafunnisa Begum’s biography was published in 2021. Naim, a translator and ...

Purani Dilli to Ayodhya, Fouzia Dastango is reimagining Hindu epics to Meena Kumari’s story in Urdu. Crowds love it.

CBI Probe agency registers case; FIR filed under Section 103 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, placing the officers under the ...

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