Urdu books are experiencing an overwhelming response at the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair, with the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) reporting tremendous demand. Director ...

It is while flipping through the yellowed pages of an old feedback register at Danish Mahal that I spot Manzoor Parwana. Seated quietly in his chair, sipping a glass of tea, the 77-year-old retired ...

Fans of the popular characters Labubu, Elmo, Grimace and Doraemon flocked to see giant inflatables of the four in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour on the first day of a week-long show on Saturday, ...

The Narendra Modi government has run into allegations of using institutions under its administrative control to glorify or defend controversial Hindutva icons. The National Council for the Promotion ...

Patiala: The Punjab languages department has announced the Best Hindi and Urdu Book Awards for 2025. These awards are part of the annual Best Book Awards presented by the Punjab govt to books in ...

Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...

A long-awaited moment has finally arrived for Thai fans of the beloved Japanese animation Doraemon. The iconic series has aired a special episode set in Thailand, much to the excitement of its ...

in the late 1960’s. Izhar-ul-Haq was deeply moved by Aftab Ahmad Shah’s wondrous intelligence, his mercurial temperament, and his imperviousness to worldliness. He proceeds to review the latter’s ...

Doraemon: Nobita's Art World Tales, the latest installment in the long-running Doraemon franchise, is set to be released across the Chinese mainland on Saturday. Marking the 44th installment in the ...

Sudha Pai in 2002 stated, “If a language is not characterised by political neutrality, it too often becomes the tool by which this language group seeks to extend its domination over the minority ...

Prose poetry is a literary form that combines elements of prose and poetry to create a unique narrative voice and style. It appears as standard prose, without line breaks, but utilizes poetic devices ...