Hyderabad’s Ruhaan Arshad is slowly, but surely, becoming a name to reckon with on the internet and social media circles. The 17-year- old, who is a student of the city’s Prathibha Degree College, has ...

‘Bibi’s room’ refers to the space of a woman which purportedly belongs to her but is never hers. Bibi (an affectionate form of address for a woman in Urdu) represents all women whose identity is often ...

HYDERABAD: Urdu has been the heart of Hyderabad since time immemorial. While the number of writers, readers and enthusiasts has slowly come down, the city has a golden few of them doing their every ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Chennai, April 26 (IANS) Actress Hansika Motwani, who is a part of the web series 'Gully', has now given details of her preparation process for the series and revealed how working on ...

Sufi hip hop and reggae in Hyderabadi Urdu is gaining popularity with the release of a new album, Souljah. Sufi singer Mudassir Ahmed aka Mo Boucher "When we see something wrong in our community, we ...

GST commissioner of Hyderabad by day, ghazal writer and Urdu poet by night, S Faheem Ahmed, IRS, straddles two diverse worlds indeed. the 1990 batch officer admits that he loves number crunching, but ...

HYDERABAD : Irani chai and biryani are not the only two things that Hyderabad is famous for. If you’ve lived in Hyderabad long enough, you must have heard someone say nakko, haw, aaraon, jaatey. These ...

Urdu is tied to secular, progressive movements, not religious orthodoxy. The slogan "Inquilab Zindabad," popularized by Bhagat Singh, was coined by Urdu poet Hasrat Mohani. Marxist scholar Aijaz Ahmad ...

I was a little shocked when my brother asked me a question he had asked a hundred times before. “Aap kaisi hain?” [How are you?]. Why was I shocked? What was so strange about this everyday query? The ...

Padullaparthy Venkata Suryanarayana Murthy, known by his pseudonym Mehak Hyderabadi to readers, has been bridging thecultural gap through translations. The former senior journalist with 35 years of ...