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Zafar Sehbai who started penning poetry in 1957, has recited along side Faiz Ahmad Faiz. Sehbai is representative poet of Bhopal, a major centre of Urdu ghazal …
Wafa Siddiqui is in his nineties and he has been penning poetry for almost seventy years. He continues to compose ghazals. He is probably the senior most Urdu p…
He doesn't mind if you see book at his shop and buy them from elsewhere. Had passion for collecting books and hence opened the bookshop.
This library in Central India was started in the year 1922. It has now completed 100 years of its existence.
In this interview, Farooq Anjum reveals that how renowned poet Taj Bhopali, who was his uncle, had tore the paper on which he [Farooq Anjum] had written a ghaza…
The Global Burden of Disease Study surmises that nearly 600,000 deaths in India could be attributed to indoor air pollution in a year in 2019.
Shams Ur Rehman Alavi interviews the author regarding the book on Congress' veteran leader Mohsina Kidwai. The book has generated lot of interest from different…
Author Mukarram Niyaz, who writes short stories and had a collection, Raste Khamosh Hain, published earlier, comes up with a fresh book on movies.
Rana Safvi's journey to Sufi centres and hospices across the country, enchants the reader, joins the dots with elegance, explaining relationship between Sufism …
In memory of renowned poet late Wahid Premi, the Khushbu Cultural Academy organised the event and felicitated poets, conferring awards.
The filmmakers have somehow assumed that a benign Sindhi character is inconceivable.
A list representing Urdu writers from different regions, eras apart from highlighting books that have certain uniqueness.