Ms Anusri is equally accomplished as a poet and visual designer and her various artistic talent has resulted in winning ...

A recent Sunday walk hopes to usher a new initiative to build connections between literature and Mumbai neighbourhoods ...

Kamal Amrohi directed only four films, but his penmanship, screenplays and dialogues defined the contours of Bollywood.

A conversation on the nature of translation; the histories of Sanskrit and Urdu; and the disparities and similarities between ...

Mumbai, Veteran journalist, poet and filmmaker Pritish Nandy passed away in Mumbai on Wednesday, sources close to him said. Nandy , a Padma Shri awardee, died after a cardiac arrest at his home in ...

In a social media post, veteran actor and Nandy’s friend Anupam Kher paid tribute, calling him a 'support system' and 'one of ...

The Chief Election Commissioner, Rajiv Kumar, who will retire next month after presiding over the Delhi Assembly elections on February 5, bid farewell to his tenure with a memorable touch of poetry ...

New Delhi’s LTG Auditorium was jam-packed on 5 January, with middle-aged and older people making up most of the audience.

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Urdu, a language prominent in South Asia, has boasted a complex morphological structure with unique features but has lacked standard linguistic resources like datasets. Long-text classification has ...

Key Takeaways The use of Urdu poetry in political discourse can add depth and cultural richness to parliamentary debates. Verbal duels between political leaders can serve as a reflection of their ...

In this book, there are poems built around Hindi/Urdu/Punjabi words ... How do your translations and poetry interact with each other? Increasingly, these two have become indistinguishable.