[
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]Here’s how to wish your friends a ‘Happy Friendship Day’ in 10 Indian languages
- Best friends need no specific words and phrases to convey their love but if you have friends scattered in different states of India, here’s your guide to wish them a ‘Happy Friendship Day’ this year in their native language
_1627573672198_1627573680536.jpg "Here’s how you can wish your friends ‘Happy Friendship Day’ in different Indian languages(Photo by Duy Pham on Unsplash)")
Updated on Aug 01, 2021 09:22 AM IST
By Zarafshan Shiraz
Mirza Ghalib 223rd birth anniversary: 20 couplets by the Mughal era Urdu poet that capture the pathos of love
Mirza Ghalib 223rd birth anniversary: Remembering the legendary Urdu poet and the epitome of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb with these 20 couplets that are sure to add all the missing romance to your love life and are also the best life coach
Updated on Dec 27, 2020 12:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | By Zarafshan Shiraz
HT reviewer Maaz Bin Bilal picks his best reads of 2020
The shutting down of dissent: A classic that comments on reactions to the epidemic, novels that reveal the paranoia against Muslim minorities, and a volume that interrogates the idea of Hindustan
Updated on Dec 19, 2020 05:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By HT Correspondent
With love from Banaras
Brunch date with Chef Vikas Khanna and actor Neena Gupta: “If a film has no objective, it won’t work!”On the eve of the release of their movie with a message, the chef/filmmaker and acclaimed actor get talking
Published on Dec 13, 2020 08:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By Karishma Kuenzang
Roundabout: Love beneath the gentle shade of the chameli
Poet and anthologist Abhay K celebrates love with the unmistakable touch of the subcontinent in a new anthology of great Indian poems
Updated on Nov 22, 2020 12:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Nirupama Dutt
Roundabout: Pyaasa revisited on Sahir Ludhianvi’s death anniversary in his Centenary year
This 1957 film was inspired by the poetry of Sahir and Guru Dutt wove around it the theme of social injustice and the poignant though unspoken love of the poet and the prostitute, which rises above the prejudices of the class-torn social order
Published on Oct 24, 2020 10:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By Nirupama Dutt
Roundabout: Portrait of a village in Punjab before the sundown of Partition
Chandigarh-based writer, psychologist and activist Ranjit Powar’s debut novel Dusk over the Mustard Fields captures the composite culture of undivided Punjab, which, however, is not without its class, caste, communal and gender inequities
Updated on Oct 10, 2020 09:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Nirupama Dutt
Translate worksheets before sending them to students, DoE tells Urdu medium schools
A senior official at the directorate, requesting anonymity, confirmed that they issued the order after taking cognisance of a Hindustan Times report, that said students and teachers of least 20 Urdu medium government schools in Delhi were struggling without online study material or worksheets in the language.
Updated on Oct 10, 2020 11:40 AM IST
Hinduustan Times, New Delhi | By Fareeha Iftikhar
Srinagar based govt school teacher selected for National Teachers Award 2020
The government school teacher, Sultana, originally from Nowshera area of Srinagar, is posted at Government Primary School Danger Pora, Tailbal Srinagar.
Updated on Aug 31, 2020 05:26 PM IST
Srinagar | By Asian News International| Posted by Akhilesh Nagari
Interview: Urdu scholar and critic, Gopi Chand Narang
The venerable 89-year-old literary theorist on his early memories of growing up in Balochistan, arriving in Delhi after Partition, on the poetry of Ghalib and Mir, and on his lifelong association with Urdu
Updated on Aug 20, 2020 04:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By Nawaid Anjum
Happy Birthday Gulzar: The wordsmith who continues to enthrall through soulful poems, stirring couplets and more
Gulzar believes that writing is a full-time job and draws much of his inspiration from the Space. Having spent over 5 decades writing in various forms in the Hindi film industry, publishing books and directing movies, it is the power of his pen that continues to keep everyone mesmerised.
Updated on Aug 18, 2020 06:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | By Saumya Sharma
Remembering Rahat Indori: The People’s Poet
The Urdu doyen was the voice of the common man and he spoke fiercely for everything he believed in.
Updated on Aug 16, 2020 10:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By Swanand Kirkire
Delhiwale: Poetry, in the time of job loss
Mr Hussain is fond of Mirza Ghalib, Faiz Ahmad Faiz (in fact, he is holding a copy of Faiz’s verses right now), Gulzar and many others including Rahat Indori, who died a few days back
Updated on Aug 14, 2020 05:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Mayank Austen Soofi
Review: Poetry of Belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950 by Ali Khan Mahmudabad
A book that is as much a scholarly read on the 19th century, as it is an oblique critique of the present
Updated on Aug 06, 2020 03:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By Lamat R Hasan
UK’s Covid-19 strategy hit by lack of advice translation
Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi are among major languages the UK government translates official communication, but translation services have not been able to keep up with frequent virus-related updates. Some key advice is only available in English.
Updated on Jul 28, 2020 04:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times, London | By Prasun Sonwalkar| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi
Roundabout: My Other Half – Telling tales of the storyteller from Sialkot
Urdu fiction writer Joginder Paul (1025-2016) gave a sensitive pen to Partition with memorable fiction such as Dera Baba Nanak and Sleepwalkers. His wife Krishna looks back at the man as she turns 90
Updated on Jul 04, 2020 11:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Nirupama Dutt
With Covid-19 lockdown, poetry flowers virtually in Valley
Thanks to organisations promoting art and culture, online poetry sessions have become a part of life in J&K
Published on Jun 03, 2020 01:15 AM IST
By Mir Ehsan
‘They have brought their bodies and plugged them in; they will go to die there - where there is life’: Gulzar
In his latest poem, Gulzar pens a hauntingly beautiful and riveting tribute to the migrant workers and the crisis that they’re going through during lockdown in India amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Updated on May 20, 2020 01:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | By Saumya Sharma
I get guilt pangs when I see hardships around: Danish Husain
The actor-director says that he is fortunate to be with his sister in USA during these trying times.
Updated on May 02, 2020 09:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By Sanskrita Bharadwaj
Covid-19 outbreak: Parents of Iranian students at PU tell them to stay put
Published on Mar 19, 2020 02:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Dar Ovais, Chandigarh
Keeping humour alive in time of corona alarm, the Punjabi way
Not surprisingly, the coronavirus anxiety has now been weaved into a Punjabi boli (two-line lyric) to which bhangra is performed with joie de vivre.
Published on Mar 14, 2020 10:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Nirupama Dutt, Chandigarh
A tale of the many-spirited
A group of young artistes speak about their experience of making a short film on the Muslim queer population
Updated on Feb 27, 2020 04:53 PM IST
Mumbai | By Sammohinee Ghosh
Muslims learn Sanskrit, Hindus study Urdu in this UP madarsa
A madarsa, Gulshan-e-Baghdad, situated in Rasulpur development block of Wazirganj is not only giving Sanskrit lessons to Muslim students but a large number of Hindu students are also studying here to learn Urdu.
Published on Jan 23, 2020 03:37 PM IST
Gonda (UP) | By Indo Asian News Service
Sanskrit to replace Urdu on railway signboards in Uttarakhand
Sanskrit was made the second official language of Uttarakhand in 2010 during the chief ministership of Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, who is now Union HRD Minister.
Published on Jan 20, 2020 06:06 AM IST
Dehradun | By Press Trust of India
Jab We Met: Faiz Ahmed Faiz and I
I was searching for some tangible memorabilia of my chance meeting with him in the winter of 1982, which would stand scrutiny. That took time, and alas, also ended in failure.
Updated on Jan 16, 2020 11:45 PM IST
By Ayaz Memon
Demand soars for books on Faiz Ahmad Faiz in UP
In Kanpur, most of the leading bookshops have already run out of stocks and book stalls in the ongoing Handloom Expo are drawing huge crowds for Faiz books. Read on to know more...
Published on Jan 12, 2020 01:06 PM IST
Lucknow | By Indo Asian News Service
Poet of protest, Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Faiz, wrote compellingly on events that shaped the destiny of the subcontinent; he also brought a new internationalism to Urdu poetry
Updated on Jan 10, 2020 08:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By Rakhshanda Jalil
Celebrating Faiz Ahmad Faiz and the spirit of Hum Dekhenge in today’s times
Zia ul Haq, after a coup against Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1977, was ruling Pakistan. He was a religious fundamentalist, ruling the country with an iron-fist.
Updated on Jan 04, 2020 04:20 PM IST
By Javed Akhtar
Mirza Ghalib 222nd birth anniversary: Facts about the legendary Urdu poet
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, better known by his pen name Ghalib and Asad, was born on December 27, 1797.
Updated on Dec 27, 2019 06:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By HT Correspondent
Jashn-e-Rekhta: For the love of Urdu, a language that defines a composite culture
Over the last five years, this cultural festival has sought much interest from specifically the younger generation.
Updated on Dec 13, 2019 12:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | By Henna Rakheja