Accusing Mallikarjun Kharge of suppressing painful memories and forgetting the history of the Razakars despite personal loss, ...

Discover Ranjit Hoskote's curated selection of 150 couplets from Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir in 'The Homeland's an Ocean.' ...

The Royal British Legion says there is no "correct" way to wear a poppy - just that you must "wear it with pride". Most ...

Who does Urdu belong to? India's right-wing seems to think it's a foreign import, forced upon by so-called Islamic invaders. The latest fracas happened in April when a reporter from a far-right ...

Discover some surprising facts about Urdu, including how much it has in common with other languages. Also available in Urdu with audio.

Reflections on building work in the late 1970s in Covent Garden, central London, taking in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Bommi Baumann. By David Wise 2023-4.

Pakistan offspinner Sajid Khan has found a number of ways of getting under England's skin, from the moustache twirling to the thigh thumping that accompany borderline invasion of personal space.

From a typeface designer taking people around the bylanes of Bengaluru to Carnatic vocalists immersing visitors in sacred hymns at temples in South India and an archaeologist recreating the WWII era ...

Wikipedia tells us that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has been banning pornographic websites in the thousands since 2011. I remembered all the horror stories when the Kasur scandal ...

and Ghazals by Mir Taqi Mir from Urdu, by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. To echo a phrase from the text, each segment celebrates “an entire civilisational moment” with brevity and elegance.