The Urdu Adab’s special issue on Mir Taqi Mir acknowledges a past mistake of censorship and rectifies it by publishing, for ...

Due to her beauty, Hazrat Mahal, then called Umrao, attracted the attention of two female brokers who worked for Wajid Ali ...

Islamophobia has one more target in contemporary India, the language of love and poets, Urdu. In the weaponising of Ideology, ...

Wandering the streets of Qaiser Bagh, the walled palace complex of the last Nawab of Awadh ... the perfect venue for the Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival (MSLF), which has been celebrating ...

Darul Musannefin, an institute established to propagate the rich cultural heritage of Urdu, Arabic and Persian texts through ...

While the Academy is Azamgarh’s pride, it faces a severe financial crunch. It has only one librarian, 48-year-old Saleem ...

Akhilesh Yadav criticizes U.P. CM for using Urdu to distract from failures in ... number of BJP supporters joined the Samajwadi Party in Lucknow on Sunday under the leadership of SP leader Pooja ...

The grand Rumi Darwaza at the entrance of old Lucknow is telling of the time when ... It was built by Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula in the 17th century ...

Lucknow is a city where history and flavour walk hand in hand. Known for its tehzeeb, rich culinary traditions, and slow-cooked delicacies, every bite tells a story of Nawabs and royal kitchens.

Dalrymple wrote, "Rampur library is probably the best preserved early modern library in the country: home to around 30,000 rare manuscripts in Pashto, Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, and even Tamil." ...

He also praised its collection of around 30,000 rare manuscripts in Pashto, Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, and Tamil ... traces its origins to 1774 when Nawab Faizullah Khan established it as a center ...