Rauf Parekh
THE history of Urdu prose in northern India begins with Karbal Katha. It was also known as Dah Majlis, a misnomer...
Published 17 Jun, 2024 05:30am
MUCH has been written on Palestine issue in recent past and ever since the onset of Israel’s genocidal attacks on...
Published 10 Jun, 2024 08:11am
DURING his stay in England for a degree from Cambridge between 1905 and 1907, Allama Muhammad Iqbal had decided to...
Published 03 Jun, 2024 07:07am
RUBAA’I, or quatrain, is considered a difficult poetic genre to compose despite its brevity. A quatrain, as the...
Published 27 May, 2024 06:04am
A book based on a series of lectures uses a philosophical approach to analyse the cultural and spiritual aspects of Iftikhar Arif
Published 26 May, 2024 08:35am
IT is commonly believed that arts are at loggerheads with science. So is spirituality. Apparently it may sound a bit...
Published 20 May, 2024 07:11am
“ARABIC literature is the enduring monument of a civilisation, not of a people. Its contributors were men of the...
Published 13 May, 2024 08:04am
AUTHOR Muhammad Saleemur Rahman is a polymath. He is a poet, translator, fiction writer, lexicographer, critic,...
Updated 06 May, 2024 06:38am
ALLAMA Iqbal’s two Persian masnavis, or kind of long poems, Asraar-i-Khudi (1915) and Rumooz-i-Bekhudi (1918), ...
Published 22 Apr, 2024 07:18am
IN DELHI’S Urdu Bazaar in 1980s, there were some 80 shops selling Urdu books. Now there are barely six and they ...
Updated 15 Apr, 2024 07:47am
WRITERS, poets and creative artists are geniuses, but then there goes a famous aphorism that says there is a thin...
Published 08 Apr, 2024 08:44am
SOME 20 years ago, Masood Ahmed Barkati (1933-2017) informed this scribe that Naunehal’s circulation had gone ...
Published 01 Apr, 2024 07:17am
IT SEEMS that majority of our intellectuals, writers and poets are somewhat unhappy with the abundance of Urdu...
Published 18 Mar, 2024 09:05am
WHEN we think of Pakistani folklore two names pop up in our mind: Lok Virsa and Uxi Mufti. Lok Virsa, or National...
Published 11 Mar, 2024 07:58am
SOME books have a strange destiny. They are fun to read but hard to find, just like some people who are a great...
Updated 04 Mar, 2024 08:36am
PERSIAN was to the poets of Urdu in 18th century what Latin was to the 15th-century bards in England: a language...
Updated 28 Feb, 2024 05:40pm
WITH a mushroom growth of private universities in Pakistan, notwithstanding the fact that many so-called ...
Published 19 Feb, 2024 07:32am
WITH a mushroom growth of private universities in Pakistan, notwithstanding the fact that many so-called ...
Published 19 Feb, 2024 07:26am
Josh Maleehabadi’s last poetic collection has been published 41 years after the poet’s death and contains verses not part of Josh
Published 18 Feb, 2024 08:38am
FEBRUARY 15 marks Ghalib’s death anniversary. To pay homage to the great bard, discussing Yadgar-i-Ghalib, the...
Published 12 Feb, 2024 07:47am
