President Droupadi Murmu on Friday gave away the 58th Jnanpith Award to renowned poet-lyricist Gulzar and Sanskrit scholar ...

Hyderabad's youth are reviving Urdu through poetry readings and workshops in heritage sites. Platforms like Anjuman-e-Fannan ...

PREMIUM The bias against Urdu showed its face during the framing of a Constitution for independent India, but the noble architects of that wonderful charter of governance adopted in 1950 did their ...

The Supreme Court rejected a plea by former councillor of Patur town, challenging the use of Urdu on the signboard of the municipal council of Patur. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of ...

Language is not religion and to consider Urdu as a language of Muslims is a "pitiable digression" from reality and unity in diversity, the Supreme Court has said while rejecting a petition ...

The Supreme Court has said it is a “pitiable digression from reality” to believe that Hindi is the language of the Hindus and Urdu of the Muslims. A language is only a means of communication ...

Poetry is the art of language used to convey emotions and experiences. From invoking passion to bringing an audience to a whole new world, poetry is a powerful tool of expression. In honor of ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Johnny Tillotson, the singer behind Sixties hits “Poetry in Motion” and “It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin’,” has died at the age of 86. Tillotson’s wife, Nancy, confirmed the news in a ...

Famous for his romantic and mystic poetry, Tagore was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. His books are Gitanjali and The Gardener. Mirza Ghalib: A renowned Urdu ...

Publishing poetry on Instagram “goes beyond writing. On social media, there's a communication, a visual, an aesthetic and an audio aspect. Of course you must have a way with words, but you also ...