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

Heart-wrenching, healing, and hauntingly real, these 10 Gen Z books can capture the raw truth of growing up and finding ...

Secrets of the Indus, myths about Urdu and the fight over nature - this week’s hottest reads uncover hidden histories and ...

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

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

From a collection of Urdu stories by non-Muslim writers to a historical book on the legacy of Marthanda Varma and more, here ...

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

LAHORE - Renowned Urdu poet, short story writer, and literary icon Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi was remembered on his 19th death ...

A new novel by Beyamin, an anthology of Urdu stories by non-Muslim writers, a Bengali murder mystery in translation, and more ...

An intrepid critique of entrenched and entitled Muslim elites, CM Naim, a historian and essayist, recently passed away at 85.