Rauf Parekh
AUTHOR Muhammad Saleemur Rahman is a polymath. He is a poet, translator, fiction writer, lexicographer, critic,...
Published 06 May, 2024 06:04am
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
THE study of controversy kicked up with the publication of Allama Iqbal’s Asraar-i-Khudi is interesting in that it...
Published 05 Feb, 2024 06:37am
DURING an interview, Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi narrated an interesting incident. He said when he was on a visit to China...
Published 29 Jan, 2024 07:51am
IT was mid-1980s when this writer had the opportunity to attend Prof Annemarie Schimmel’s lecture at Karachi’s...
Published 22 Jan, 2024 08:05am
THE biggest problem that new researchers face is finding sources on the topic of their research. Some start with...
Published 15 Jan, 2024 07:01am
SOME books do not become old and just keep on getting younger, shining more brightly as they age. Baang-i-Dara, the...
Published 08 Jan, 2024 07:10am
BOOKS have always been perceived as potentially dangerous weapons because they are quite capable of affecting and...
Updated 01 Jan, 2024 08:48am
IN Urdu’S literary historiography, the city of Delhi is often referred to, metaphorically, as a garden or candle: ...
Published 25 Dec, 2023 05:39am