This song, sung again and again through my childhood, gave me more than musicality—it gave me moral imagination.

The Aiwan-E-Ghalib Auditorium turned into a lyrical haven on Saturday evening as Nisschal Zaveri took the stage for Andaaz, ...

Indian ghazal singer, composer and producer Nisschal Zaveri, whose upcoming show Andaaz is a deeply personal offering of ...

These factors combine to paint a picture where poetry is on its deathbed and struggling for breath. As a young person in ...

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the use of Urdu on municipal signage in Maharashtra, describing it as “the finest specimen of Hindustani culture”, as Indian as Hindi or ...

And yes, ask someone in love as to how Sher (Urdu couplets) and Ghazals (several couplets of ... songs beat the more severe literary forms of poetry amd managed to burrow deep into what is today ...

Urdu found its most powerful expression in poetry (especially ghazals). Poets like Amir Khusrau, Mir Taqi Mir, and Mirza Ghalib elevated the language’s literary prestige. During the Mughal period, the ...

Ghazals included here are embellished with words from the original Urdu or Hindu ... phonetics proving without doubt that this is poetry unmistakably from India. Poetry here seems to be embracing ...

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 ...