The bard of Bhopal always warbled a new melody. He settled on the banks of Yamuna, but the Upper Lake always lingered in his ...

Urdu literary groups have welcomed the Supreme Court's judgment on Urdu, calling it a language rooted in India and as Indian ...

Which are the rare books that you lost? I had rare books by (legendary poets) Firaq Gorakhpuri and Faiz Ahmed Faiz. I had special books on the progressive movement in Urdu literature. All has been ...

All great educational institutions we venerated are shadows of what they once were, and the entire attention is on what a Mughal emperor did The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started ...

Soon he established a publishing house, named Sangam, in collaboration with the renowned poet Firaq Gorakhpuri. But the publishing house went bust and he had to join education department in Bombay.

Ever since he was a child — moving from Bhopal and Aligarh to Lucknow and Mumbai — he spent hours in the company of Urdu poets of the time such as Firaq Gorakhpuri, Josh Malihabadi, Jigar Moradabadi, ...