While conducting storytelling sessions at schools, I am often requested for stories with morals. I can understand the concern
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About a decade ago, when I was living in Karachi, I started thinking about how a lightweight, well-integrated public library model
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In my previous column, I had mentioned that the dozen or so Urdu poets we remember today as the masters of the language, through
Updated24 Mar, 202409:42am
When I began translating Urdu dastaan classics in the late 1990s, I learned very soon that popular dictionaries like Firoz-ul
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With Palestine, we are in a unique time in history. Savagery is the domain of power, and history is replete with examples of human
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If someone forgets to listen to the votive tale after a prayer has been answered, something can likely go wrong. However, if...
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American artist, writer and translator Daisy Rockwell has translated several works of modern classical Urdu and Hindi lite...
Updated05 Mar, 202310:13am
This is a qissa of three ghosts, a history they wrote together, and another history or fiction yet to be fully written, which...
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In an example of prudishness forcing critical insight, literary critic Farman Fatehpuri makes an interesting point in Urdu Ki...
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