English readers have loved Russian classic writers, the French naturalists, and the Latin American greats without even bothering to know the names of their English translators. The Translator’s ...

Indian women exponents of ghazal were better than the best in Urdu poetry, said noted architect and patron of arts, Vikram Lall, at a talk organised to recount contributions of women singers across ...

To my ears, the sound of the Urdu language and the ghazal were the most enticing when I was in my teens, even though I could not understand most of the words. I had no idea that the couplet had a form ...