His love for the language dates back to the 1970s when he went to Pakistan to study; he considers the country his second home Dr Zubair Farooq, a UAE national, is a well-known name in Indian and ...

In the early years of post-Iqbal history of Urdu poetry, one finds two distinct streams flowing alongside each other — the two streams eventually mingling and generating powerful cross-currents. One ...

For the millennials, a Jagjit Singh playlist will begin with “Koi Fariyaad” from Tum Bin. And for a generation before that, it can be “Tum Itna Jo” from Arth. The two movies might be over two decades ...

Mamdani mayor banaayenge, Zohran ko hi laayenge,” sings Saima Jahan in a video shared by multiple handles in a collab post on ...

NYC mayoral frontrunner's campaign gets South Asian boost with Urdu-Punjabi song by Saima Jehan at Jackson Heights event, evoking Noor Jehan's legacy amid multicultural rally.

When Shakeel Badayuni wrote the song Jab pyaar kiya toh darna kya for Mughal-e-Azam, director K Asif made him rewrite it nearly a hundred times until each word shone like a gem. “We hum these songs ...