Shatavadhani Dr R. Ganesh sits in a peculiar corner of India’s intellectual landscape, one where poetry, memory, language and ...

India publishes poetry in more than 24 recognised languages every single year. The Sahitya Akademi, the country's national academy of letters, gives out annual awards for poetry in languages ranging ...

BHOPAL, INDIA -Widely admired for his ghazals, Bashir Badr built a literary legacy that spanned decades and earned him ...

Back after a Covid enforced hiatus, India's premier, standalone poetry festival will be held at the India Habitat Centre - on 10th and 11th December 2022. Delhi Poetry Festival (DPF) 6th edition ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...

PLAYS in India often seem to Westerners like pretty long-winded affairs. Well, as a matter of fact, they are. What many Westerners really can’t quite grasp, though, is that Indians like them that way ...

With the passing of Dr Bashir Badr at 91, Indian literature loses one of the last towering figures of the modern Urdu ghazal ...

Indian diplomats have a long and storied history of contribution to literature, ranging from acclaimed novels to short stories and poetry. India’s ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros, Abhay Kumar — ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Delhiites are in for a poetic treat that will resonate for a very long time ...

In the poem “Not One Fish,” Indian Jewish author Zilka Joseph shares the story of how her community, the Bene Israel, connected with the wider Jewish world. Legend has it that in the second millennium ...