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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

1. 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

What do I say? And what do I write? My eyes have lost their vision, and my heart its joy. Hands tremble, And my... Updated 15 Oct, 2017 06:35pm

The phrase ‘pretty wrongs’ comes from the first line of William Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 41’, a line that... Updated 01 Aug, 2017 12:05pm