Awaiting stroke of luck
Visiting the walled city is like stepping into Delhi’s storeyed past. Among the many things that takes one tothe days...
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Jashn-e-Rekhta draws overwhelming crowd, but hundreds left unhappy
The three-day-long Jashn-e-Rekhta festival returned after a pandemic break of three years, but ended on a note of inconvenience for...
Bask in Jashn-e-Rekhta 2022
Jashn-e-Rekhta, the world's largest Urdu language literary festival, is returning on-ground after a pandemic break of three years. The seventh...
Loved, lost and found
The show, titled ‘Ehsaas Ka Safar’, builds its narrative on a jugalbandi of sher-o-shayari and ghazals which takes the audience...
Ghalib has been called back to the court!
From movies, drama series to stage plays, the bard of Urdu Literature, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib has been a centric...
Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar and the slow death of a language
Walking through the bylanes of Jama Masjid in the walled city of Delhi, one is quite familiar with the term...
Ghalib ki Haveli: Where poetic memories linger
Among the poets patronized by the Mughal emperors, Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869) stands out as a consummate versifier among other famous...
Doha Movement – Resurrecting a lost art
Rahiman dhaaga prem ka todo mat chatkaaye Toote se phir na mile, mile gaanth pad jaaye (Don’t snap off the...