Let’s pause here and carve it on our cultural consciousness that poetry — especially Urdu... Published Nov 11, 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 Sep 09, 2018 06:55am

A young boy plays around in the narrow corridors of a dilapidated house dimly lit by kerosene lanterns casting long... Published Jul 01, 2018 07:07am

Yesterday, April 21, marked exactly 80 years since the death of Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Who is Iqbal? So many lofty... Published Apr 22, 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 Feb 18, 2018 08:37pm

The fortunes of the fecund text Padmavat, on which the controversial Sanjay Leela Bhansali Bollywood film of this... Updated Feb 18, 2018 12:56pm

The great German poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is known for the fascination he held for Persian poetry, the ... Published Dec 10, 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 Oct 15, 2017 06:35pm

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

The earth is rotating through the hot season, and the month of Ramazan is upon us. One of the virtues of these 29 or... Published Jun 11, 2017 07:03am

Just two days ago, on April 21, began the eighth decade since the death of Pakistan’s national poet, Allama... Updated Apr 25, 2017 11:44pm

Historical rupture is a terrible thing; it throws centuries into the darkness of amnesia. How hard it is for us to... Published Feb 19, 2017 05:58am

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On the cross-cultural vicissitudes of an Arabic work of fiction Updated May 25, 2016 06:31pm

On the Andalusian Arabo-Muslim milieu of the “world’s greatest novel” Published Apr 03, 2016 07:15am

On Urdu poetry’s sport of visual metaphors Published Jan 31, 2016 06:48am

On the music of Urdu poetry Published Dec 06, 2015 06:33am

Looking at the equivalence of poetry and the visual arts Published Oct 18, 2015 06:45am

On Punjab’s Mas‘ūd and Seville’s Mu‘tamid Published Aug 30, 2015 06:43am

On the poet with a sensibility unmistakably Hafiz-like, highly Persian, who now seems to have been all but forgotten Published Jun 14, 2015 07:05am