Musharraf Ali Farooqi

COLUMN: PEDAGOGY AND HIGH-WIRE ACTS — PART II

A kind of poetic justice was meted out to me some years later. My school had been recently nationalised and, while a number of Published 02 Mar, 2025 08:03am

COLUMN: PEDAGOGY AND HIGH-WIRE ACTS

Sometimes the lack of stimulation is just what the mind needs to develop in a healthy way. I recently thought about... Published 02 Feb, 2025 09:03am

COLUMN: THE LOST WORKS OF GHULAM ABBAS

Professor Abdur Rasheed, who retired as Urdu professor from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, is one of Urdu... Published 29 Dec, 2024 08:56am

COLUMN: THE COMPLETE DICTIONARY

Those who use print dictionaries frequently, get so practised in the exercise that they can usually open it on the... Published 01 Dec, 2024 07:07am

COLUMN: TEACHING A LESSON

While conducting storytelling sessions at schools, I am often requested for stories with morals. I can understand the concern Published 27 Oct, 2024 09:41am

COLUMN: RETHINKING LEARNED BODIES

Learned bodies in arts and literature exist for the advancement and promotion of these disciplines, and everywhere ... Published 25 Aug, 2024 08:49am

COLUMN: A PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

About a decade ago, when I was living in Karachi, I started thinking about how a lightweight, well-integrated public library model Published 28 Jul, 2024 08:17am

COLUMN: THE ART OF STORYTELLING — PART III

In this last column in the series on the Art of Storytelling, I will write about my most recent adventure in storytelling. Updated 23 Jun, 2024 10:48am

COLUMN: THE ART OF STORYTELLING — PART II

In the first part of this column, I had explained how the Memorise, Connect, Improvise (MCI) method of interactive... Updated 26 May, 2024 09:31am

COLUMN: THE ART OF STORYTELLING-I

In 2015, it was my honour to be invited by the education advocacy campaign Alif Ailaan to teach storytelling to... Published 21 Apr, 2024 10:39am

COLUMN: CUSTODIANS OF THE WORD – PART 2

In my previous column, I had mentioned that the dozen or so Urdu poets we remember today as the masters of the language, through Updated 24 Mar, 2024 09:42am

COLUMN: CUSTODIANS OF THE WORD — PART 1

When I began translating Urdu dastaan classics in the late 1990s, I learned very soon that popular dictionaries like Firoz-ul Published 18 Feb, 2024 08:32am

COLUMN: THE SCHOLAR REBEL

It is difficult to reckon the breadth of scholarship once commonplace in the knowledge centres of pre-colonial India. Published 21 Jan, 2024 09:21am

Column: WEBS OF CENSORSHIP

In my last column, I had suggested that, as evidenced from the events in Palestine, a permanent shift is taking ... Updated 18 Dec, 2023 10:47pm

COLUMN: A TEMPLATE OF VIOLENCE

With Palestine, we are in a unique time in history. Savagery is the domain of power, and history is replete with examples of human Published 19 Nov, 2023 07:37am

COLUMN: A HISTORY OF URDU MYSTERY

In order to flourish and have existential permanence, a language needs both chroniclers and ambassadors, in addition... Published 17 Sep, 2023 06:02am

COLUMN: WRITERS' UNIVERSES

A novel is a thematic world controlled by the author. Sometimes a writer realises that his many thematic worlds fit... Published 13 Aug, 2023 08:24am

COLUMN: VOTIVE AND PROTECTIVE TALES

If someone forgets to listen to the votive tale after a prayer has been answered, something can likely go wrong. However, if... Published 14 May, 2023 08:17am

INTERVIEW: ‘YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO LET GO OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT AT A CERTAIN POINT’ — DAISY ROCKWELL

American artist, writer and translator Daisy Rockwell has translated several works of modern classical Urdu and Hindi lite... Updated 05 Mar, 2023 10:13am

COLUMN: LOVERS' UNION IN DEATH

The repetition of the theme over centuries reveals it to be a major preoccupation of our literature. Published 08 Jan, 2023 07:42am