R) Meer Mohsin Ali, a Yahind.com journalist; Mallpudi Sita Rama Rao, former president of Telugu Kala Kshetram; K.N. Wasif, photographer and journalist; Asima Saleem, principal of Yara International School; Rehman Saleem (not seen in the photo), (...)
MULTIFACETED artists are not confined to the pages of history books. Adil Mansuri, a renowned Indian playwright, artist, calligrapher and poet who wrote in Urdu and Gujarati, passed away at the age of 72 in New Jersey last week. He has several books (...)
SURVIVAL and continuance of Urdu is, in fact, the survival and continuance of democracy in India, said a visiting Urdu scholar from India recently.
Professor Sulaiman Ather Jawed, a noted linguist and Urdu writer and ex-faculty member of (...)
He is a ghazal singer with a difference. His style is different, renditions are different; different he is even in the way he tackles such a tender genre like ghazal.
He is to be ‘seen' to be believed that ghazal is more than a mere discourse with (...)
GHAZAL singing, the most popular and versatile poetic-musical art form in the Indian subcontinent, has traveled to the different parts of the world with Indian diaspora.
Last week, Khalid Iqbal, an Indian ghazal singer, presented a unique and (...)
Kyaa rahaa hai Mushaairon men ab
Log kuch jam'aa aan hote hain
What is there in poetry soirees now?
Some people gather, and that is it.
In this couplet, almost a century ago, Meer Taqi Meer, one of the legends of Urdu Poetry, was complaining (...)
“LANGUAGE is being; it is also the interface of culture,” said writer, scholar, critic, and linguist, Professor Gopi Chand Narang, at a reception recently in Riyadh given by Tanzeem Hum Hindustani (THH) in collaboration with the Bihar (...)
It was a marathon evening of laughter for Urdu-speaking community members here.
Mustafa Ali Baig entertained the audience with his witty Anglo-Urdu poetry and unique style of presentation at “Jashne Mizah” presented by Tanzeem Hum Hindustani (...)
A Ghazal Nite with famous Indian Ghazal singing duo Ahmed Husain and Mohammed Husain as well as Mohammed Vakil and their group presented by Indian Embassy in Riyadh at International Indian School auditorium (Girls section) enthralled audience for (...)
Jamia Millia Islamia Alumni Association Riyadh Chapter (JMIAA) organized a family get-together, in Riyadh attended by more than 70 families.
The program included quiz, painting competitions, cultural evening for children and distributions of (...)