No year-enders this time. I have not recovered enough from what this year inflicted on me to write dispassionately about it. But as the name promises, I am writing the next worst thing: the decline ...

Slowly, this world, rooted in research, textured with historical detail and fragrant geographies, and shaped by its own ...

In the world of Urdu literature, countless poets have come and gone, and many more will continue to appear, but the sky of time has rarely witnessed a poet like Ghalib. Ghalib was fully aware of his ...

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Ravindra Kaushik, known as The Black Tiger, was one of India’s most daring undercover spies who lived for years inside ...

There is a wonder in reading in Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and to have them touch you back. – ...

Edited by Rakhshanda Jalil, the anthology contains 16 stories by non-Muslim writers, from the early decades of the 20th ...

The Danish postal service has announced it will cease deliveries from 30 December after 400 years. Eventually, other countries may go down a similar route Predictions of the demise of letter writing ...

As the curtain falls down on 2025, we close the year on what has been a glorious year for heavy metal, and indeed what can even go down as one of the greatest in the annals of metal history; ...

In his tearful speech, Lumbera lamented that Filipinos can hardly miss "a man they barely knew." The genius, however, never sought worldly recompense in his quest for artistic excellence. He always ...

The film, directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi, is about the struggles faced by Hindus and Muslims during the Partition of ...