The name Maqta carries a quiet declaration. In a ghazal, it is the final couplet where the poet signs himself into the poem.

Several cultures postulate a cyclical construct of time, instead of linear. This may or may not be valid for history, but it manifests itself prominently in human culture. Literature, for one, given ...

Farhan Khan is an artist shaped as much by Urdu poetry and old Hindi cinema as by hip-hop. Growing up between Agra and Mumbai, surrounded by mehfils organised by his father and his friends, the rapper ...