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

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

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

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

Meanwhile, on the work front, Shabana Azmi was recently seen in the web series Dabba Cartel. Released in February 2025, the ...

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 ...

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

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

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