Rauf Parekh
DR KHURSHEED Rizvi is a living legend, though because of his modesty and unassuming ways he is little known outside...
Published 11 Sep, 2023 07:02am
JUST as William Wordsworth had written a preface to his Lyrical Ballads (1800, expanded in 1802), justifying his...
Published 04 Sep, 2023 07:54am
GENERAL perception about Punjab’s role in 1857 war of freedom is not so positive. It is perceived that not only ...
Published 28 Aug, 2023 08:39am
GONE are the days when Urdu’s literary magazines were something to talk about, something to cherish. Alas, no ...
Updated 21 Aug, 2023 08:45am
INTELLECTUAL snobbery has always been an integral part of Urdu’s literary psyche. Standards set by highbrows would...
Published 15 Aug, 2023 09:00am
CONTEMPORARY Urdu criticism has not only become clichéd but it is also divorced from reality. Critics don’t care...
Published 07 Aug, 2023 07:54am
SIR Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) is considered an authority on Mughal history, albeit not without reservations. A...
Published 31 Jul, 2023 10:27am
MIR Anees, one of the most awe-inspiring poets of Urdu, says: Laga raha hoon mazameen-i-nau ke phir ambaar Khabar...
Published 24 Jul, 2023 07:22am
HISTORY tells us that once we had some remarkable scholars, but we lost them and even forgot that
Published 17 Jul, 2023 08:20am
A WIDESPREAD misconception about letter-writing in Urdu is that Ghalib pioneered it. But the fact is Ghalib began...
Published 10 Jul, 2023 07:13am
UNESCO’s list of endangered languages includes several Pakistani languages and Brahui is one of them. Some...
Published 03 Jul, 2023 07:00am
DR ANWER Sadeed in his book Urdu Adab Mein Safarnama has mentioned about 80 Haj travelogues written in Urdu, but the...
Published 26 Jun, 2023 05:44am
MACHINE Translation means translating a text from one language to another with the help of artificial intelligence...
Published 19 Jun, 2023 08:08am
SAWANEH is an Arabic word and a plural. Singular is saniha, which means event, incident or accident. In Urdu, ...
Updated 13 Jun, 2023 07:00am
ELEGY, or marsiya, is a poetic genre in Urdu that bewails the departed souls and praises them. Dirge, or nauha, ...
Published 05 Jun, 2023 07:06am
THOUGH Mawazna-i-Anees-o-Dabeer is sometimes regarded as Shibli No’mani’s best critical work, it is a fact that...
Published 29 May, 2023 08:03am
AMONG the most remarkable and influential literary magazines of Urdu was Urdu Nama. With articles on lexicology and...
Published 22 May, 2023 07:39am
A LANGUAGE is not merely a language and it is a sum total of historical, cultural and societal influences that have...
Published 15 May, 2023 07:04am
“HISTORY of Urdu literature cannot be comprehended fully unless one understands Delhi, the greatest centre of...
Published 08 May, 2023 07:02am
IS online information about writers of Urdu a boon or bane? While internet has made access to information easy, ...
Published 01 May, 2023 06:58am
