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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...

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that…

Faiz spoke about prison, chain, lock, fire and scheming political leaders in his very first collection of pre-Pakistan..

Ahmad Faraz, the poet whose words delivered young hearts into a frenzied gallop, has himself been dwindling into...

Many years ago, in the bustling urban anarchy of Harvard Square, sprawled just outside the Harvard University ...

Thinking in binaries is the delight of a growing child. Isn’t the cat evil, through and through evil, with nothing...

Much has been said about the difficulties one faces in translating poetry. Yes, it is a daunting task, particularly...

A slim new volume of Urdu poetry stitches together a tapestry of poetic forms and speaks in a contemporary diction

Let’s pause here and carve it on our cultural consciousness that poetry — especially Urdu...

A poem of Faiz Ahmed Faiz that begins with the line

[And so we shall witness] has become over the years perhaps ...

A young boy plays around in the narrow corridors of a dilapidated house dimly lit by kerosene lanterns casting long...

Yesterday, April 21, marked exactly 80 years since the death of Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Who is Iqbal? So many lofty...

1. Ratan Sen is not dishonourably killed by Khalji, 2. Padmavati surrenders herself to sati, 3. she is not a Rajput

The fortunes of the fecund text Padmavat, on which the controversial Sanjay Leela Bhansali Bollywood film of this...

The great German poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is known for the fascination he held for Persian poetry, the ...

What do I say? And what do I write? My eyes have lost their vision, and my heart its joy. Hands tremble, And my...

The phrase ‘pretty wrongs’ comes from the first line of William Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 41’, a line that...

The earth is rotating through the hot season, and the month of Ramazan is upon us. One of the virtues of these 29 or...

Just two days ago, on April 21, began the eighth decade since the death of Pakistan’s national poet, Allama...

Historical rupture is a terrible thing; it throws centuries into the darkness of amnesia. How hard it is for us to...