The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Parveen Shakir started writing at a very young age. She wrote both prose and poetry, contributed columns in Urdu newspapers, and a few articles in English dailies. She was winner of the Pride of ...

(Relevance: Urdu is part of the rich Indian culture. The recent Supreme Court judgment has reaffirmed that Urdu is not alien to India. In this reference, knowing about the history of the Urdu language ...

Over time, this new hybrid language became more structured and was increasingly used in literature, poetry, and everyday communication. Urdu found its most powerful expression in poetry (especially ...

Language does not even represent religion. Language belongs to a community, to a region, to a people; and not to a religion,” the Supreme Court ruled while upholding the use of Urdu on the signboard ...

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 ...

The top court described Urdu as the finest example of 'Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb' and criticised prejudice against languages, calling such bias a "threat to India's cultural strength". Listen to Story ...

While rejecting the challenge of using Urdu on the signboard of a Municipality in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court yesterday warned that language should not become a cause for division and that the ...

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 ...

Urdu, like Marathi and Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language and is not alien to India as it was born and got flourished here, the Court said. In a significant judgment advocating respect for the ...

JAMMU, Apr 11: The newly elected Board of Directors of the Citizens Cooperative Bank Ltd today unanimously re-elected Parveen Kumar Sharma as Chairman of the bank. The newly elected Directors are ...

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 ...