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

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 ...

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

For someone steeped deep in the Urdu ethos, who grew up in the environs around Lucknow of the 1940s–’50s, he was ...

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

The 19th death anniversary of renowned poet, writer, and literary figure Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi observed on Thursday with respect and admiration across the country. He was born on November 20, 1916, in ...