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MIR Anees, one of the most awe-inspiring poets of Urdu, says: Laga raha hoon mazameen-i-nau ke phir ambaar Khabar...

Sheikh Mohammad, under the pen-name Manzoor, wrote at a time when the first printed books were coming out in India. That Urdu would grow into a pan-Indian language was also not in his wildest imaginations.

IN addition to making more money in their spare time, rich people may take up many other hobbies, for instance,...

Hindi is old. Its bones, and even its flesh, have stayed much the same, because it was already ‘fully grown’ by the 12th century, and adults do not change much once they are mature.

THE word ‘pseudo’ means not genuine, false. And ‘epigraph’ means an inscription. Therefore, falsely...

BN Goswamy Among the British Library’s extraordinary collection of materials relating to the history of Indian music in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries lie dozens of European accounts of the nautch — intimate musical parties at which troupes of high-status North Indian courtesans would sing, dance, recite poetry, and match wits with the assembled company, often to mark special occasions. — Note on a performance at the British Library (2018) A nautch troupe. From the Skinner ...