Jnanpith Awards for ONV Kurup, Akhlaq Shahryar

Eminent Malayalam litterateur O N V Kurup and noted Urdu poet Akhlaq Khan Shahryar have been chosen for the Jnanpith Award for the year 2007 and 2008 respectively for their contribution to......

Shabana Azmi mourns the death of Umrao Jaan writer

Urdu poet Shahryar, whose lines resonated across Hindi cinema when he worked with filmmaker Muzaffar Ali in Gaman (1978), Umrao Jaan (1981) and Anjuman (1986), is no more.Shabana Azmi, who sang......