Asif Farrukhi
Afzal Ahmed Syed has done great service to our literary heritage by excavating and translating vintage couplets from often unfairly dismissed poets...
Published 31 May, 2020 01:38pm
News of death, especially if unrelated to the dreaded coronavirus, seems all the more dismal...
Published 10 May, 2020 06:43am
Stopping short of being declared a pandemic on a global scale by watchdog bodies, the dreaded coronavirus has...
Published 15 Mar, 2020 08:35am
Written in a clear style and modern idiom, these poems display concerns of one of the most important contemp...
Published 16 Feb, 2020 07:09am
The Palestinian poet known the world over is Mahmoud Darwish. Among the major poetic voices of our times, it is in...
Published 12 Jan, 2020 07:03am
Julian Barnes’s latest book is a groundbreaking, genre-bending biography which has the fascination of fiction and which
Published 05 Jan, 2020 09:19am
The last quarter of this year marks the centenary of T.S. Eliot’s essay ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’....
Published 10 Nov, 2019 06:57am
A comprehensive study of the ground-changing literary criticism of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Published 27 Oct, 2019 07:04am
The withdrawal of the Nelly Sachs Prize to Kamila Shamsie devalues the prize itself, rather than diminish the stature
Published 29 Sep, 2019 07:09am
A novel by a first-time writer and set in the bleak and wintry landscape of Kamchatka is unlike anything else recent
Published 15 Sep, 2019 07:02am
Every year around mid-August, with some degree of fanfare, the civil awards are announced by the government of...
Published 08 Sep, 2019 07:06am
Daisy Rockwell’s superb translation of Khadija Mastur’s posthumous and oft-neglected novel makes it even more compelling
Published 25 Aug, 2019 07:11am
Being a rare guest in a valley hitherto unspoilt by the ravages of tourism can be a magical and an unforgettable
Published 21 Jul, 2019 05:53am
There are several new books on Saadat Hassan Manto. Slowly and steadily, the pile keeps growing. Most are new ...
Published 07 Jul, 2019 07:24am
Partition is not the end, but a beginning for Krishna Sobti’s elegiac and lyrical A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There,...
Published 19 May, 2019 07:19am
Dr Jameel Jalibi passed away on April 19. He leaves behind an enormous legacy as a historian of literature, but also as
Published 28 Apr, 2019 07:16am
One of the most significant publications related to Urdu’s literary culture forces us to reconsider previously held
Published 14 Apr, 2019 07:08am
Why combine the Urdu Dictionary Board and the Urdu Science Board?
Published 21 Mar, 2019 06:46am
In a year of relentlessly pursuing good novels, some of the most interesting and amazing novels I read came,...
Published 24 Feb, 2019 09:14am
Solitude, deep introspection and an existentialist sense of each passing moment set the accomplished author’s work
Published 20 Jan, 2019 08:58am
