Mansoor Ali Khan (Fawad Khan, charismatic, mostly okay-ish) is a respected, well-off writer of one popular book — Udhaar Maangay Alfaaz — which supposedly put Urdu literature on the world map.

Delhi celebrated the Urdu language at the Jashn-e-Rekhta Festival, while Haryana Sahitya Akademi hosted a seminar on ...

The second day of the 10th edition of Jashn-e-Rekhta saw a mushaira by acclaimed names, including Wasim Barelvi, Javed Akhtar, and Vijendra Singh Parwaz.

For a thousand years, Punjab kept its history in song, not script. Now, fewer than a dozen people can still perform the epic ...

The relationship between mutual intelligibility and linguistic classification is famously complex, often boiling down to ...

The instructor pushed the boat off the dock with her oar. I rowed as hard as I could but did little more than splash the water’s surface, alternating between saying prayers and holding my breath for t ...

The protagonist Alice is engaged to be married to a Bengali psychiatrist named Ronit Roy, who had treated her for aphasia, a ...

Writers, activists, and scholars reflect on the most urgent books of 2025—from Palestine and caste to climate, queerness, and resistance. Read their picks.

The Polish nurse at the rehabilitation center asks her to decide. Does Neela want to have an abortion or wait for the ...

Written in Urdu by Siddique Alam and translated by Jaideep Pandey, the novel is also an incisive dissection of the legal ...

The filmmaker and writer talks to ‘Scroll’ ahead a retrospective at the International Film Festival of Kerala.

Nayab Midha speaks to HerStory on finding her voice through poetry, her special show, Rajkumari and telling the female PoV of ...