“Very few people are familiar with Urdu literature, even through poetry. There were forms such as the qasida — used to praise someone or a marsiya, a song of sorrow that have faded out,” he say ...

Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff both star as the titular character in director Roshan Sethi’s funny and charming romance. In director Roshan Sethi’s “A Nice Indian Boy,” the title doesn’t ...

Author Robert L Forbes read shared springtime poetry from his book “Let's Have ... the crowd to go accompany a reading of Forbes' poem "Funny Bunny." The event drew 424 children age 4 or younger ...

Javed Akhtar, whose participation delighted the audience, said, “Poetry is not about big words or difficult ideas. It’s about saying something simple that touches people deeply. Tonight ...

Nothing is more important to a wedding than a well-timed joke or clever pun. Well, that and cake. Cake is probably more important. And the bride and the groom. But after the bride and the groom ...

“I wouldn’t say heckling, but just trying to be frat-boy funny,” he said. If they are meant as jokes, they aren’t working with the man immortalized on the RBC Canadian Open logo.