Syed Nomanul Haq
Seeking a metaphor to describe Ghalib, we must recognise that he himself is its superb craftsman...
Updated 21 Feb, 2021 12:51pm
As far as I am concerned, I know Western literature, but I do not feel belittled by it.”...
Updated 03 Jan, 2021 03:50pm
The one whose spring would be this, then its autumn — do not ask!
Updated 15 Nov, 2020 12:57pm
This year is the 1,000th anniversary of Ferdowsi’s death, the epic poet whose magnificent Shahnama has shaped not only culture
Published 04 Oct, 2020 08:39am
How interesting, it is a text that begets aesthetic expressions in the sphere of visual creativity. Today, the several hundred...
Updated 09 Aug, 2020 07:29am
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...
Published 14 Jun, 2020 06:16am
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that…
Updated 19 Apr, 2020 01:06pm
Faiz spoke about prison, chain, lock, fire and scheming political leaders in his very first collection of pre-Pakistan..
Published 09 Feb, 2020 06:58am
Ahmad Faraz, the poet whose words delivered young hearts into a frenzied gallop, has himself been dwindling into...
Published 03 Nov, 2019 07:02am
Many years ago, in the bustling urban anarchy of Harvard Square, sprawled just outside the Harvard University ...
Published 30 Jun, 2019 07:06am
Thinking in binaries is the delight of a growing child. Isn’t the cat evil, through and through evil, with nothing...
Published 14 Apr, 2019 07:08am
Much has been said about the difficulties one faces in translating poetry. Yes, it is a daunting task, particularly...
Published 10 Feb, 2019 07:20am
A slim new volume of Urdu poetry stitches together a tapestry of poetic forms and speaks in a contemporary diction
Updated 28 Jan, 2019 10:37am
Let’s pause here and carve it on our cultural consciousness that poetry — especially Urdu...
Published 11 Nov, 2018 08:38am
A poem of Faiz Ahmed Faiz that begins with the line
[And so we shall witness] has become over the years perhaps ...
Published 09 Sep, 2018 06:55am
A young boy plays around in the narrow corridors of a dilapidated house dimly lit by kerosene lanterns casting long...
Published 01 Jul, 2018 07:07am
Yesterday, April 21, marked exactly 80 years since the death of Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Who is Iqbal? So many lofty...
Published 22 Apr, 2018 07:20am
Ratan Sen is not dishonourably killed by Khalji, 2. Padmavati surrenders herself to sati, 3. she is not a Rajput
Published 18 Feb, 2018 08:37pm
The fortunes of the fecund text Padmavat, on which the controversial Sanjay Leela Bhansali Bollywood film of this...
Updated 18 Feb, 2018 12:56pm
The great German poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is known for the fascination he held for Persian poetry, the ...
Published 10 Dec, 2017 07:01am