Stories by Asif Farrukhi
Afzal Ahmed Syed has done great service to our literary heritage by excavating and translating vintage couplets from often unfairly dismissed poets...
Published 31 May, 2020 01:38pm
News of death, especially if unrelated to the dreaded coronavirus, seems all the more dismal...
Published 10 May, 2020 06:43am
Stopping short of being declared a pandemic on a global scale by watchdog bodies, the dreaded coronavirus has...
Published 15 Mar, 2020 08:35am
Written in a clear style and modern idiom, these poems display concerns of one of the most important contemp...
Published 16 Feb, 2020 07:09am
The Palestinian poet known the world over is Mahmoud Darwish. Among the major poetic voices of our times, it is in...
Published 12 Jan, 2020 07:03am
Julian Barnes’s latest book is a groundbreaking, genre-bending biography which has the fascination of fiction and which
Published 05 Jan, 2020 09:19am
The last quarter of this year marks the centenary of T.S. Eliot’s essay ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’....
Published 10 Nov, 2019 06:57am
A comprehensive study of the ground-changing literary criticism of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Published 27 Oct, 2019 07:04am
The withdrawal of the Nelly Sachs Prize to Kamila Shamsie devalues the prize itself, rather than diminish the stature
Published 29 Sep, 2019 07:09am
A novel by a first-time writer and set in the bleak and wintry landscape of Kamchatka is unlike anything else recent
Published 15 Sep, 2019 07:02am
Every year around mid-August, with some degree of fanfare, the civil awards are announced by the government of...
Published 08 Sep, 2019 07:06am
Daisy Rockwell’s superb translation of Khadija Mastur’s posthumous and oft-neglected novel makes it even more compelling
Published 25 Aug, 2019 07:11am
Being a rare guest in a valley hitherto unspoilt by the ravages of tourism can be a magical and an unforgettable
Published 21 Jul, 2019 05:53am
There are several new books on Saadat Hassan Manto. Slowly and steadily, the pile keeps growing. Most are new ...
Published 07 Jul, 2019 07:24am
Partition is not the end, but a beginning for Krishna Sobti’s elegiac and lyrical A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There,...
Published 19 May, 2019 07:19am
Dr Jameel Jalibi passed away on April 19. He leaves behind an enormous legacy as a historian of literature, but also as
Published 28 Apr, 2019 07:16am
One of the most significant publications related to Urdu’s literary culture forces us to reconsider previously held
Published 14 Apr, 2019 07:08am
Why combine the Urdu Dictionary Board and the Urdu Science Board?
Published 21 Mar, 2019 06:46am
In a year of relentlessly pursuing good novels, some of the most interesting and amazing novels I read came,...
Published 24 Feb, 2019 09:14am
Solitude, deep introspection and an existentialist sense of each passing moment set the accomplished author’s work
Published 20 Jan, 2019 08:58am
