Abbasuddin Ahmed had taken part in singing Urdu qawwalis that described the richness of Islamic history and the love of ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The frenzied fury against Muslims began with provocative songs played by Hindu mobs that called for violence. It ended with Muslim neighborhoods resembling a war zone, with pavements ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...

SRINAGAR: On the banks of Dal Lake, the Chinar Book Fair will return in all its glory between Aug 2 and 10, bringing hundreds of books of Urdu, Persian, Hindi, and English fiction, AI, science, and ...