SYED Muhammad Mirza Muhazzab Lakhnavi is not a much known figure in Urdu’s literary and academic world. So is his... Published Apr 24, 2018 07:02am

ON April 21, every year we mourn the death of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the poet-philosopher or philosopher-poet,... Published Apr 16, 2018 07:26am

YAADON ki baraat, an autobiography by Josh Maleehabadi (1898-1982), first appeared in 1970 and it created quite a... Published Apr 10, 2018 06:20am

SOME misconceptions are so deep-rooted that one has to repeat some facts quite often to eradicate these... Published Apr 02, 2018 06:56am

IN the Library of Congress, it was said a few years ago, are housed over 250 books on literary criticism that... Published Mar 26, 2018 06:19am

HAZRAT Baba Fareeduddin Ganj-i-Shakar is one of the most venerable and eminent mystics of the Chishtiya order of... Published Mar 19, 2018 07:03am

IN Islamic world, there have rarely been any scholars in the modern age that can truly be described as a confluence... Published Mar 12, 2018 07:12am

WOMEN’S rights movement has come a long way and looking at festivities on international Women’s Day, ... Published Mar 06, 2018 07:00am

It was February 2006 and this writer was aboard a flight to Lahore when a fellow passenger ... Published Feb 27, 2018 06:43am

‘POLYMATHY’ is a word derived from two Greek roots meaning ‘much’ and ‘to learn’. A ‘polymath’ was a... Published Feb 20, 2018 07:02am

For the lovers of Ghalib, the special issue of Rang-i-adab has brought something to cheer about. Updated Feb 15, 2018 12:17pm

LEXICOGRAPHY is the art and science of writing dictionaries. According to R.R.K. Hart­mann, one of the... Published Feb 06, 2018 06:57am

Language variation has been a subject of huge research studies in the West. Sociolinguists say that within a society... Published Jan 30, 2018 06:54am

PROF Shamim Hanafi, one of today’s most celebrated critics and researchers of Urdu, will turn 80 this November.... Published Jan 22, 2018 06:58am

RICH in history and culture, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) has a rich linguistic treasure, too, which is as gorgeous as... Published Jan 16, 2018 07:02am

A DIALECT is a variety of a language. According to dialectologists,regional dialects are specific to geographical areas. Published Jan 08, 2018 06:42am

IT is a known fact that languages die. Published Jan 02, 2018 07:00am

Although Urdu literature’s death was announced some 60 years ago, this year’s output, by writers old and new, proves Published Dec 31, 2017 07:05am

ADDRESSING a public meeting at Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), on March 21, 1948, the founder of Pakistan ... Published Dec 25, 2017 06:53am

Rarely in modern history has it happened that someone with very meagre formal schooling reached the height of honour. Published Dec 19, 2017 07:00am