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2nd May, 2013
Dastaan, Shairi and Afsana at the festival
The second day of the Islamabad Literature Festival saw more sessions on Urdu literature with Zehra Nigah speaking on poetry and Intizar Hussain on prose.
The second day of the Islamabad Literature Festival saw more sessions on Urdu literature with Zehra Nigah speaking on poetry and Intizar Hussain on prose.
30th November, 2012
Nayyara Noor: muted melodies
“There is a time for everyone to call it a day and do so gracefully, rather than be labelled a spent force.”
“There is a time for everyone to call it a day and do so gracefully, rather than be labelled a spent force.”
14th June, 2012
Ghazal maestro Mehdi Hassan is no more
Iconic vocalist and a legend in ghazal singing Mehdi Hassan breathed his last here on Wednesday. He was 85.
Iconic vocalist and a legend in ghazal singing Mehdi Hassan breathed his last here on Wednesday. He was 85.
15th February, 2012
The sulasi master enthrals poetry lovers
KARACHI, Feb 14: Urdu poetry lovers on Tuesday had a wonderful time listening to delectable sulasis, nazms and ghazals by distinguished poet Himayat Ali Shaer at an event organised in his honour by the Anjuman
KARACHI, Feb 14: Urdu poetry lovers on Tuesday had a wonderful time listening to delectable sulasis, nazms and ghazals by distinguished poet Himayat Ali Shaer at an event organised in his honour by the Anjuman
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10th October, 2011
United in grief
On hearing the news of Jagjit Singh’s death, the first thing that instantly came to mind was my father and our ‘Five o’clock Tea’.…
On hearing the news of Jagjit Singh’s death, the first thing that instantly came to mind was my father and our ‘Five o’clock Tea’.…
26th October, 2010
Mehdi Hasan: a yardstick
It was not until Mehdi Hasan: The Man and his Music, the book that I conceived, compiled, edited, partly wrote and almost entirely rewrote, hit…
It was not until Mehdi Hasan: The Man and his Music, the book that I conceived, compiled, edited, partly wrote and almost entirely rewrote, hit…
