RECENTLY someone asked me whether Urdu’s literary magazines were still in print or had succumbed to the onslaught unleashed by electronic media. The answer was: “yes, they are still published, though ...

URDU magazines are in hot water: rising costs and dwindling sales have made the survival very difficult. Some of them have had to be adapted for the technological advances and these Urdu magazines are ...

It's the first of its kind in India – an Urdu-English women's research magazine brought out by an all-woman team. Nisa, a quarterly magazine, was launched last week in Hyderabad by the Nisa Research ...

With two of its periodicals — Aiwan-e-Urdu and Mahanama Umang — losing sheen and readership, the Urdu Academy in Delhi has planned their editorial and design revamp. NEW DELHI: With two of its ...

It‘s 3 pm on a scorching afternoon in the Sambhali Gate area of Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. The lanes in this densely populated pocket of the city are silent except for a scrap dealer doing the rounds ...

Daylight barely enters the hall. The paint on the blue brick wall has started to flake off. The switchboards are covered with layers of dust. The blades of the ceiling fan are wrapped in cobwebs. An ...

The magazine stopped publishing during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Its last editor, Asif Fehmi, remembers the magazines trajectory – and hopes to give it another life soon. This article went live ...

Widely recognised for its literary value, Urdu- a language spoken in various parts of India- has seen a decline in speakers, thereby jeopardising the multi-religious, cultural diversity attached to it ...

Mumbai: There are demands to revive the Urdu edition of the state government’s Lokrajya magazine which was discontinued during the covid epidemic. Samajwadi Party Member of the Legislative Assembly, ...

Daylight barely enters the hall. The paint on the blue brick wall has started to flake off. The switchboards are covered with layers of dust. The blades of the ceiling fan are wrapped in cobwebs. An ...