Whenever I write about Dakhni on social media, there is a barrage of purists asserting that it is just a dialect. Last I ...

While the Academy is Azamgarh’s pride, it faces a severe financial crunch. It has only one librarian, 48-year-old Saleem ...

Darul Musannefin, an institute established to propagate the rich cultural heritage of Urdu, Arabic and Persian texts through ...

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The Urdu Adab’s special issue on Mir Taqi Mir acknowledges a past mistake of censorship and rectifies it by publishing, for the first time, the complete unabridged text of ‘Zikr-i Mir’, the poet’s ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...