The November 1942 issue of The Indian Listener, the programme guide of All India Radio, contains a rather curious entry. At 5.45 pm on November 16, 1942, the third transmission of the Peshawar station ...

Lucknow: Famous poet Munawwar Rana’s daughter and Samajwadi Party (SP) leader, Sumaiya Rana, refused to give an interview to a Pakistani TV journalist over Nitish Kumar’s hijab controversy. Rana told ...

MUMBAI – Guru Dutt’s masterpiece ‘Pyaasa‘ (1957), just before its soulful dirge on relationships, shows two poets reciting ‘shers’. The elder one later also politely reprimands a guest for his snide ...

Jigar Moradabadi’s shayaris on love are like chicken soup for the soul. They have the power to move the coldest of hearts. Let these mesmerising nazms by Moradabadi be the solace you were longing for: ...

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On Saturday, two cultural organizations—Komal Nishad and Nav Srijan—organized a ‘Bazm-E-Sukhan’ session in memory of the poet at Worli. Born Ali Sikandar, Jigar is best remembered for couplets and ...