Experts tell us there are at least 200 versions of the text in more than 50 languages. However, standard accounts of the fable’...
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This is Mir Taqi Mir, invoking the candle and moth symbolism — something ubiquitous in classical Urdu poetry. Indeed, it is found
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I have written more than once about a fascinating, deeply meaningful and yet, at first glance, somewhat odd beseeching of a very
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This is how Faiz softens human suffering, turning chains into silk threads. It is supremely remarkable that here is an acti...
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This year is the 1,000th anniversary of Ferdowsi’s death, the epic poet whose magnificent Shahnama has shaped not only culture
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How interesting, it is a text that begets aesthetic expressions in the sphere of visual creativity. Today, the several hundred...
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Asif Farrukhi left us. When I heard the news from my younger sister, it seemed to me that the whole realm of being had come to a grinding halt...
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