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Preserving our heritage February 26, 2021 Recently, an informative article appeared on the Urdu version of the UKs most renowned journal, The Independent, highlighting some historical facts about the Ramkot Fort. According to the writer Sajjad Azhar, the fort, located in Azad Jammu Kashmir near Mangla Dam, is attributed to Hindu religious hero Ram Chandra. The ancient site is comparatively in a better condition than other forts in the Potohar region. Ram, according to ancient epic Ramayana, i...

The Spotify app will soon be available in Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, and Odia. At its online-only Stream On event on Monday, Spotify announced that Hindi is part of a wave of 36 new languages coming soon to Spotify, alongside the likes of Romanian and Swahili.

While Indian-English writing has achieved great heights in literary fiction, that achievement is yet to be matched in genres ranging humour to crime. This is curious, because regional literatures have produced great masterpieces in various genres, comparable to the best of world literature. Especially in the crime/mystery/noir segment, curiously, many masters from abroad have chosen an Indian backdrop for their memorable and popular works, but little has come up from here. There have been numer...

Dennis Eason is a Red Cross volunteer from Smithfield with more than 20 years of experience as a firefighter, as well as more recent work with disaster relief.

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‘Dust of the Caravan’ is a Muslim woman’s unique personal and political memoir An excerpt from Anis Kidwai’s memoir, translated from the Urdu by Ayesha Kidwai. Author Anis Kidwai (second from right, middle row) with members of the family and family retainers. Amongst the dream-like memories there is also one of an evening in which my Bua has my younger brother in her arms and I am walking alongside them. At a short distance from the house, I see a dirty bundle of clothes lying o...

(MENAFN - Gulf Times) Bazme Sadaf International (BSI), Urdu literary organisation of expatriates, recently held the first Khaleej (Gulf) Urdu Conference and mushaira (poetry symposium).  The online event was mainly facilitated by the Kuwait chapter of BSI and watched by thousands via Facebook live. The theme of the first days international seminar was to highlight the achievements of various organisations active in GCC countries for the promotion of Urdu language and literature, and to rec...

28 foreign language books translated into Urdu Students, teachers from 10 govt schools attended Learning Festival ISLAMABAD: A three-day hybrid Pakistan Learning Festival (PLF) offered a magical atmosphere as children and teachers read books written in the languages of Laos, Vietnam, and Indonesia that were translated into Urdu. The PLF is an initiative of the Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) that was inaugurated by showcasing Pakistan Literacy Project (PLP)’s newly integrated Room to R...

February 15, 2021 Prof. Muzaffar Hanfi, a prominent Urdu Poet, critic, and writer JAMMU, India — Aalami Tehreek Urdu (International Urdu Movement), an organization based in India to promote the Urdu language, has decided to institute a global award in the name of Prof. Muzaffar Hanfi, a prominent Urdu Poet, critic, and writer. The award will be given to a scholar in Urdu literature in April this year. President of Aalami Tehreek Urdu, Dr. Zakir Malik Bhulaisi, announced th...

PAL to hold seminar on revolutionary poet tomorrow DNA February 14, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Hailed as one of the greatest, most inspiring and eloquent poets of South Asia, yesterday (Feb 13th) marked the 110th birth anniversary of the iconic revolutionary poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Glowing tributes were paid to his literary work by scholars and the media on the day. Faiz was a Pakistani leftist poet and author. Not only was he one of the most celebrated writers of the Urdu language, but among his numerous ...