Celebrating Stories, Celebrating Literature
Here’s a report on the launch of a collection of poems, titled Arz Hai, early this month. Read more in Different Truths. Team Arz Hai, a group of young...
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May 28, 2017
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Sehar Siddiqi
Urdu and the Influence of Punjab
Urdu, which was till now thought to have roots in Delhi, actually took birth in Lahore and adopted Old Punjabi contrary to Braj as its base language. Later, the...
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April 28, 2017
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Sehar Siddiqi
Another Page of History and Cultural Confluence
Sehar profiles the life and times of a prominent Urdu thriller writer, Prof. Syed Mujawir Husain Rizvi, an eminent academician, who has penned more than 250 novels under the...
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March 27, 2017
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Sehar Siddiqi
Urdu: Today and Tomorrow
Sehar talks about Urdu, the language of emotions. She talks of Ibn Safvi, an Urdu writer from Kareli, a locality in Allahabad, who was acclaimed by Agatha Christie. Here’s...
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March 16, 2017
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Sehar Siddiqi
To Urdu, with Love from Allahabad
Urdu has been an integral part of Allahabad’s vernacular heritage. The Ganga-Jamuni tahzeeb (culture) gets its name from the city of two rivers, Ganga and Yamuna, where these confluence...
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March 2, 2017
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Sehar Siddiqi
Akbar Allahabadi Infused Humour in Serious Subjects to Enrich Urdu Literature
The name of Syed Akbar Husain, popularly known as Akbar Allahabadi, seems to echo quite loudly from books written on Urdu literature, Allahabad and the plural culture of our nation. Given...
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February 23, 2017
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Sehar Siddiqi
That Language Named Urdu
The fictional character of Urdu having a Muslim character persisted in times of Premchand and also exists till now. During one of his lectures delivered in Bombay during the...
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February 16, 2017
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Sehar Siddiqi
Urdu and its Allahabadi Life
Fehmida Riaz, a Pakistani poetess, like other famous Urdu poets, wrote an elegy in fond memory of Firaq. In her notes to the book, Four Walls and a Black Veil,...
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February 9, 2017
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Sehar Siddiqi
Urdu-Hindi Literature Blossomed in Allahabad, the City of Confluences
The 18th century is considered to be an important phase in terms of artistic and cultural developments in the nation. The century witnessed the rise of Indian poets who used...