Rauf Parekh
“OUR novelists do not have life experience. They have not lived life as did [Rajinder Singh] Bedi, Krishan ...
Published 17 Apr, 2023 08:55am
A PSEUDONYM, or a fictitious name, is a term that includes penname, too. But in Urdu literature a penname or...
Published 10 Apr, 2023 08:19am
THE colonial heritage handed down to us includes the expressive, practical, lovely and funny language called ...
Published 03 Apr, 2023 07:00am
URDU translations of Quran began quite late as compared to Quran’s translations into European languages: Robert of...
Published 27 Mar, 2023 07:03am
POET and prose writer Insha Allah Khan Insha (1752-1817) was a genius: he knew Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Persian, ...
Published 20 Mar, 2023 07:01am
MARCH 8 marks International Women’s Day. So let us celebrate the achievements of women who have illuminated ...
Published 06 Mar, 2023 07:02am
GUL-I-RA’ANA (1923) and She’ar-ul-Hind (1925) are two histories of Urdu poetry penned in the first...
Published 27 Feb, 2023 07:04am
“A BASIC question that literary criticism has been trying to answer is: what are the elements that make literature...
Published 20 Feb, 2023 06:51am
EXACTLY 124 years ago, on February 15, died Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, one of Urdu’s greatest bards. However,
Published 13 Feb, 2023 09:01am
HINDKO is among about 75 or so languages and dialects spoken in Pakistan. Some say Hindko is a dialect of Punjabi....
Published 06 Feb, 2023 06:53am
IRFAN Javed has named his new book Aadmi and not insaan. Aadmi is a word that has many connotations in Urdu. Though sometimes
Published 30 Jan, 2023 08:17am
ABOUT a century ago, in our villages and small towns, especially in some areas in northern Punjab, educational...
Published 23 Jan, 2023 07:06am
DASTAN is among Urdu’s classical genres that have their unique characteristics. A dastan is a long, fantasy tale...
Published 09 Jan, 2023 11:43pm
“THOSE who have money do not read and those who read do not have money,” was the mantra one of my friends used ...
Published 02 Jan, 2023 07:01am
AN editorial note in January 1958 issue of literary journal Ma’arif expressed deep grief over death of
Updated 26 Dec, 2022 09:12pm
IN addition to making more money in their spare time, rich people may take up many other hobbies, for instance,...
Published 19 Dec, 2022 07:03am
Nasir Abbas Nayyar is a scholar whose style is becoming clearer by the day, as his newest book, applying modern critical the
Published 18 Dec, 2022 04:40am
LITERARY historiography has come a long way in Urdu. Beginning from Muhammad Husain Azad’s legendary Aab-i-Hayat...
Published 12 Dec, 2022 07:55am
“THIS is not a novel to be thrown aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force,” wrote Dorothy Parker, ...
Published 28 Nov, 2022 08:11am
“ALL history is the history of thought,” R. G. Collingwood, the English philosopher and historian, once ...
Published 21 Nov, 2022 07:56am
