The ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) on Sunday dismissed media reports that claimed Hindi television news channels had been served notices for using “too many Urdu words” in their ...

The timeless River Thames bore witness to a historic moment in Urdu literary history as Haraval International brought Lahore’s poetic soul to London with its inaugural Jashn-e-London International ...

HYDERABAD: The All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) will organise its annual public events to mark the 1500th Milad-un-Nabi at the party headquarters, Darussalam, this weekend. A public ...

The Lahore Arts Council, Alhamra, continued its enduring tradition of nurturing poetry and literature by hosting a grand All Pakistan Mushaira, organised under the banner of the Old Ravian Association ...

The West Bengal Urdu Academy has postponed a ’mushaira’ (poetic symposium) featuring noted lyricist Javed Akhtar following protests by some Muslim groups. The Muslim organisations claimed that certain ...

Javed Akhtar’s Kolkata event postponed by the West Bengal Urdu Academy. Left student organizations protest attack on secularism and intellectual freedom. No clarification on rescheduled programme. The ...

Pune: Connoisseurs of Urdu poetry will enthrall audiences at the All-India Mushaira to be held on Saturday as part of the ongoing Pune Festival. A mushaira is a gathering where poets recite their ...

The Embassy of Pakistan in Kathmandu in collaboration with Sahitya Academy organized a literary event – poetry symposium, titled "Aalmi Mushaira; Urdu, Shaairi Ki Zubaan" at Hotel Aloft, Kathmandu on ...

Sudha Pai in 2002 stated, “If a language is not characterised by political neutrality, it too often becomes the tool by which this language group seeks to extend its domination over the minority ...

One of South Asia's major literary traditions comes to life in New York this Saturday, April 30, when Asia Society, in collaboration with Poets House and City Lore, hosts a mushaira, a group reading ...