Nagma Rehman laments the decline of Urdu in education, highlighting challenges faced by Urdu teachers and the language's ...

The PM said he and his government are with the Manipur people. It was a message of new hope and renewal. But the key question ...

Award-winning writer Jerry Pinto reflects on his lifelong love of books, translation, and why India’s literary future depends ...

When Shakeel Badayuni wrote the song Jab pyaar kiya toh darna kya for Mughal-e-Azam, director K Asif made him rewrite it nearly a hundred times until each word shone like a gem. “We hum these songs ...

So when the Bengal government’s Urdu Academy canceled a much-publicized event with well-known poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar ...

Patiala: The Punjab languages department has announced the Best Hindi and Urdu Book Awards for 2025. These awards are part of ...

Netflix boasts an extensive collection of TV series and films, yet fans of period dramas might have missed a hidden gem on the streaming service, reports Surrey Live. This revelation comes as other ...

This week in publishing we have new works from a number of seasoned veterans with a taste for big swings and clever premises. Here you'll find that gothic horror, so often lurking in the dingy dark, ...

I've been following Dan Fesperman's espionage novels since his debut in 1999 with Lie in the Dark. That novel was set during the siege of Sarajevo, which Fesperman, a former foreign correspondent, ...

Halo is best known for its video games, but the multimedia franchise extends far beyond the games. In fact, a sizeable portion of the series' fiction takes place across numerous official Halo graphic ...

Having spent my 20s as a puzzle editor in London, I decided to do the obvious thing: write a novel. Because novels are often puzzles — they can be whodunits, whydunits, or stories that keep teasing ...