Anisur Rahman, currently senior advisor to the Rekhta Foundation, and formerly professor and head of English at Jamia Millia Islamia University, is the author of numerous books and essays on ...

There is perhaps no one in our country at least, who has not at one time or another in his or her life, been influenced by the beauty and softness of a “ghazal”. Reading a ghazal is one thing and ...

Jamshedpur, July 13: He was perhaps the only Chinese who dared to raise his voice against his country’s aggressive stand in 1962. And his poems were his weapons of choice to convey his profound ...

It is with this rich history in mind, buried today under a thin layer of dust that comes with the changing times, the Urdu Markaz started the Bhendi Bazaar Urdu Festival in 2014. On Saturday, February ...

A pleasant Saturday night on Elliot's Beach with the usual weekend crowd, the sound of the waves and families walking by the shore but what made this evening different was the soulful ghazals that ...

This is an excerpt from the Preface to Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi: The Wonderful World of Urdu Ghazals, selected, edited and translated by Anisur Rahman, HarperCollins India, detailing the journey of ...

The burgeoning cassette industry in 1983, and the portable Walkman contributed to the flourishing of mass-produced music. Udhas catered to this new listener When Pankaj Udhas passed away, his most ...

A long time ago — perhaps in the 1970s — I observed my father, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, leafing through dictionaries, searching for rare birds’ names. He was working on translating a shahr ashob of ...