Rauf Parekh
WHILE comparing Urdu literature written in India and Pakistan, it is a commonly held view that as far as creative...
Published 06 Jun, 2022 07:17am
IT hurts when one hears the oft-repeated lament that “Urdu books do not sell”. But the fact is every now and ...
Published 30 May, 2022 04:26am
CONTRARY to general perception, educational institutes have been working in Indo-Pak subcontinent since long. Even ...
Published 23 May, 2022 07:23am
MONTH of May evokes memories of the 1857 war of freedom: it began on May 10, 1857, and officially ended on June 20,...
Published 16 May, 2022 05:40am
THE Battle of Plassey was fought on June 23, 1757, between the British East India Company and Siraj-ud-daula, the...
Published 09 May, 2022 05:45am
FOLK literature is a strange phenomenon in the sense that it proffers humanistic and universal notions that ...
Published 02 May, 2022 06:29am
YASUNARI Kawabata (1899-1972), the Japanese writer, is not unknown to the readers of Urdu for two reasons: Kawabata...
Published 25 Apr, 2022 06:51am
EVERY year readers are deluged with new books and articles on Allama Iqbal. On his death anniversary, falling on...
Published 18 Apr, 2022 06:40am
IT SEEMS that the art of running a country is stigmatised as something abominable since two most famous works...
Published 11 Apr, 2022 06:48am
THE study of poetic metres is called prosody. Prosody is known as arooz or ilm-i-arooz, not only in Urdu but in...
Published 04 Apr, 2022 07:54am
Fasana-i-Ajaib, or, literally, the tale of curiosities, is an Urdu dastan. A dastan is a longish, highly imaginative...
Published 28 Mar, 2022 07:22am
THE word ‘pseudo’ means not genuine, false. And ‘epigraph’ means an inscription. Therefore, falsely...
Published 21 Mar, 2022 07:01am
TODAY, when Persian is no longer a language of our literature and culture, many would find it hard to believe that...
Published 14 Mar, 2022 06:59am
AMONG the controversies that have been raging in Urdu since long, one concerns Lughat-e-Kabeer. This Urdu-Urdu dictionary was...
Published 07 Mar, 2022 07:18am
DURING the inaugural session of Karachi Arts Council’s Aalmi Urdu Conference organised in December 2021, Dr Tariq...
Published 28 Feb, 2022 07:40am
ART of letter writing looks consigned to graveyard in this age of emails...
Published 21 Feb, 2022 07:18am
WHAT perturbs a student of literature, such as this writer, is that we do not have definitive editions of some of our great...
Published 14 Feb, 2022 08:07am
KHALIQ BARI, a kind of versified bilingual glossary, is a poem containing just about 200 couplets, but it has caused...
Published 07 Feb, 2022 08:11am
VAZEER Agha was a scholar who had devoted himself to studying literature and he would sometimes derive wise...
Published 31 Jan, 2022 07:57am
RECENTLY someone asked me whether Urdu`s literary magazines were still in print or had succumbed to the onslaught...
Updated 25 Jan, 2022 05:46am
