Bahadur Shah Zafar survives not merely as the final Mughal ruler but as the poet of an empire's last breath

Robert Clive's career marked the moment when a trading company began transforming into an empire

Ghalib's couplets voicing an ache without a name, wounds that do not bleed

Penderel Moon’s quiet dissent exposed the moral limits of the British Raj

To read Mir is to read into the ghazal's sorrow, longing

How could remembering ever be a burden?

Poetry, economics and our future

History shows Afghanistan as a hub of civilisation, not a perpetual battlefield

Punjab’s anti–land grabbing law has triggered a constitutional clash over power, process, property rights

Hafiz, Ghalib's poetry on suffering as a way of knowing, practising mindfulness in calamity