Nasir Abbas Nayyar

NON-FICTION: EVALUATING TARAR

A new book presents a serious critical study of Mustansar Hussain Tarar’s novels Published 25 Feb, 2024 09:32am

FICTION: STREETS WITH NO NAMES

Asghar Nadeem Syed’s newest novel blurs fact and fiction in musing over the lost years of Gen Zia’s dictatorship Published 06 Aug, 2023 09:00am

ESSAY: ‘THE GOD OF POETRY’

Commemorating Mir Taqi Mir, the undisputed master of Rekhta, in the 300th year of his birth Updated 18 Apr, 2023 03:31pm

IN MEMORIAM: THE POET OF LOVE

Amjad Islam Amjad, who passed away February 10, was, in the jargon of mushaira organisers, a ‘crowd-puller’. His immense... Published 19 Feb, 2023 08:50am

ESSAY: THE NEW DIGITAL IMPERIALISM

Noted Urdu critic Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered the keynote speech at the inaugural session of the 15th International Urdu Con... Published 01 Jan, 2023 07:44am

IN MEMORIAM: THE SUBVERSIVENESS OF NARANG

Gopi Chand Narang, who passed away on June 15, was a towering scholar who kept reiterating the secular, tolerant, inclusive... Published 26 Jun, 2022 11:52am

POETRY: OUR SHARED POETICS

A collection of more than 100 poems from 16 South Asian languages, translated into Urdu, is a treat for lovers of poetry Published 05 Jun, 2022 10:47am

POETRY: UNDERCUTTING THE MONARCHS

Harris Khalique’s latest book of poetry celebrates the lives and audaciousness of the marginalised as a way of speaking truth... Published 16 Jan, 2022 06:59am

FICTION: REMOVING THE MASKS

Mustansar Hussain Tarar’s latest works, as always, negotiate the ‘gap’ between imagined and real worlds, between what the... Updated 26 Dec, 2021 04:30pm

ESSAY: “EXTERMINATE ALL THE BRUTES ”

Words have a cultural and political history. And the latter often involves manipulations and assertion of power... Published 29 Aug, 2021 07:06am

IN MEMORIAM: THE GHAZAL WORDSMITH

Naseer Turabi, who passed away on January 10, had only two slim volumes of poetry to his name, but his... Published 17 Jan, 2021 06:55am

IN MEMORIAM: THE SEARCH FOR ORIGINS

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, who passed away on December 25, was a true giant of Urdu literature — a critic, a poet, a novelist,... Published 03 Jan, 2021 07:31am

IN MEMORIAM: THE BOOK OF FAREWELLS

Asif Farrukhi, who passed away on June 1, was more than just a fiction writer, an essayist, a critic, a translator or a literary festival organiser. He was truly a giant of global literature... Published 07 Jun, 2020 06:55am

POETRY: SETTING THE STANDARD

Syed Nomanul Haq meticulously turns a compiled version of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s collected works into a critical one and thus Published 15 Dec, 2019 09:21am

FICTION: A BULWARK AGAINST SECULAR ART

Umera Ahmed’s latest novel is all about simplistic binaries and the rejection of the world in favour of the author’s Published 22 Sep, 2019 06:58am

IN MEMORIAM: THE LINGERING SCENT OF JASMINE

It was the second day of Eid; everyone was in a mood of celebration and all marketplaces, including the flowers shops... Updated 23 Jun, 2019 03:57pm

POETRY: REQUIEM FOR A DREAMER

Suroor Barabankvi’s collected works make clear that the late poet was one who illuminated the personal as much as the Published 10 Mar, 2019 09:14am

ESSAY: THE PROBLEMS OF COLONIAL MODERNITY

The naiveté of the modernisation project was a direct result of uncritical acceptance of the colonisers’ Published 21 Oct, 2018 08:34am

ESSAY: THE FICTION OF NAIYER MASUD

Fiction’s most significant form appears when it creates grey areas and challenges black-and-white certainties Published 19 Aug, 2018 07:21am

FICTION: COLOURED IDENTITIES

A novel grapples with the crises of identities in multicultural America, but fails to flesh out its Pakistani characters Published 06 May, 2018 07:05am