The Iran stalemate impacts Delhi, where cultural ties persist. Dr. Yunus Jaffery, a noted Persian scholar, is remembered for ...

Rumis famous line from A Great Wagon resonates centuries later because it captures emotions that remain deeply human, love, heartbreak, distance and the desire for peace beyond conflict. The poem ...

This famous quote by the Persian poet and mystic Rumi speaks about an ego-driven world where people try changing the world ...

Historian Jean Arzoumanov’s discovery of an 18th-century Jain text in Persian reveals a forgotten era where Hindu scholars ...

The Italian drama series The Law According to Lidia Poët (La Legge Di Lidia Poët) will be returning for a third season at Netflix, according to Tinny Andreatta, VP of content for Italy, as revealed ...

Commonly used Malay words such as dewan, bandar, pahlawan, gandum and anggur are among those derived from Persian, reflecting ...

Coleman Barks was a beloved community member in Athens. He joined the Department of English at the University of Georgia in ...

This excerpt from Shivya Nath's ‘Rootless and Restless’ describes the circuitous route to the author’s trip to Iran in 2019 ...

On the one hand lies wine, on the other lies piety; with thy hand in mine. ignore what society. wants you to choose, and drink from my chalice. Society’s dues. can bankrupt with ...

A manuscript containing a text of the first known poem written in the English language has been discovered in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin. The nine-line poem, Caedmon’s Hymn, dates ...

Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder A lost copy of a poem composed in the seventh century by a Northumbrian cattle herder – the ...

Rumi was born in 1207 in Balkh, now in Afghanistan. (TOI) Timeless quotations frequently surpass the period in which they were first expressed. They move through generations, societies, and word of ...