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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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THE Bāng-e Darā (Call of the Bell) of Iqbal has given us a simple, cute poem called ‘A Cow and a Goat,’ a poem... Published Dec 14, 2014 06:39am

NOON Meem Rashid is a difficult poet to understand. To begin with, his language is at once too rich and too... Published Oct 12, 2014 07:37am

ONE ought to be thankful to postmodernists for making us aware of the fact, at once oppressive and liberating, that... Published Aug 24, 2014 06:27am

Many years ago, when I was a student in London and had found the BBC as the chamber in which my repressed creative... Published Jun 22, 2014 06:12am

We do have a right to know Iqbal as a person, like all of us, with our existential challenges, our likes and dislikes. Updated Apr 21, 2014 11:17am

many of Faiz’s “prison poems,” while carrying titles that sound so grossly activist, have no activism Published Feb 09, 2014 07:43am

A legend narrated in the famous Shahnama of Firdausi has it that a physician of the Sassanid king Anushirvan Published Dec 15, 2013 08:39am