The Shankar-Shad Mushaira, a legacy since 1954, unites poetry lovers in a grand Urdu Shayari event. On 5th April 2025, ...

Lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar, in a conversation with India Today, spoke about the revival of poetry through social ...

Saba Karim Khan is an author, award-winning documentary filmmaker and educator. Khan’s debut novel, ‘Skyfall’ was published ...

Manoj Kumar's patriotism in cinema was something else. He didn't believe in the chest-thumping, hand-pump-uprooting or Pakistan-bashing patriotism of quintessential Bollywood. His enemy was the malice ...

Celebrating two decades, fusion artiste Papon believes music is his identity, not business. Read the full interview here.

In this book, well-known poet Ashok Vajpeyi writes about his close friend Sayed Haider Raza's evolution as a painter ...

Zarina Hashmi’s works keep questioning ideas of belonging. See how she makes a single line echo the history of two nations ...

Sampooran Singh Kalra, often known as Gulzar, whose poetry, lyrics, screenplays, and direction have influenced Indians for ...

What if an ideology, which is meant to impart universal wisdom and divine guidance to humanity, itself loses all its control ...

NISHTER is a Persian word and it means a lancet, a surgical knife or blade. The 72 nishters or lancets, or 72 heart-pricking ...

NISHTER is a Persian word and it means a lancet, a surgical knife or blade. The 72 nishters or lancets, or 72 heart-pricking couplets, of Mir Taqi Mir was the mantra in Urdu criticism ever since ...