Rauf Parekh
IT is often said that the West’s academic interest in the East, its culture and languages was not driven by...
Published 28 Apr, 2025 07:06am
ALLAMA Iqbal’s first poetic collection in Urdu, Baang-i-Dara, was first published in 1924. But before Iqbal could...
Published 21 Apr, 2025 05:22am
WOMEN’S autobiographies in Urdu take us back to the times when women had a restricted role to play in the...
Published 14 Apr, 2025 06:00am
A selection of articles and editorials by Shaukat Siddiqi, originally published in the Urdu weekly magazine Al-Fath during the...
Published 13 Apr, 2025 09:00am
NISHTER is a Persian word and it means a lancet, a surgical knife or blade. The 72 nishters or lancets, or 72 heart-pricking
Updated 07 Apr, 2025 07:27am
THE standards of Urdu have suffered a tangible lapse and we have come to terms with the tragedy. But one’s heart...
Published 31 Mar, 2025 05:47am
MUJTABA Husain was a prominent Indian humorist of Urdu. But his biographical details are often intermixed with his...
Published 24 Mar, 2025 07:03am
IN the aftermath of 1857 revolution, many changes began to take place in the subcontinent’s society. Launching...
Published 17 Mar, 2025 06:08am
ON International Women’s Day, let us remember a woman writer of Urdu who could not even mention her real name in...
Published 10 Mar, 2025 06:19am
ATTOCK, a city and district in Punjab, was named ‘Campbellpur’ during the British Raj and a common misconception...
Published 03 Mar, 2025 06:05am
NASTA’LEEQ, also spelt nastaliq, is considered the most beautiful of all hands used in Persian and Urdu...
Published 24 Feb, 2025 06:52am
ONE of Urdu criticism’s unwritten but time-honoured understandings is to keep on writing on life and works of ...
Updated 17 Feb, 2025 09:18am
IS literature losing its lure in 21st Century? Do most of our new researchers and critics lack in basic ...
Published 10 Feb, 2025 06:47am
ZE, khe and sheen are in fact three letters of Urdu alphabet that denote the sounds z, kh and sh. These are the...
Published 03 Feb, 2025 06:19am
IN ARABIC, qaseeda means a panegyric ode and ‘burda’ means a shawl-like fabric worn over the shoulders, a ...
Published 27 Jan, 2025 06:59am
URDU orthography, or the traditional spelling rules that govern the writing of Urdu language, has always been a bone...
Published 20 Jan, 2025 06:19am
OVER the centuries, there have been many a European who learnt and loved Urdu and then carried out some academic ...
Published 13 Jan, 2025 06:18am
AS if publishers’ laments of dwindling book sales were not enough, a new trend in Pakistan’s publishing business...
Published 06 Jan, 2025 05:46am
“I CONFESS I owe a great deal to Hegel, Goethe, Mirza Ghalib, Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil and Wordsworth. The first ...
Published 30 Dec, 2024 07:35am
“IT has become a common practice among researchers to base their papers written on Mir Taqi Mir on a few old books...
Published 23 Dec, 2024 08:12am
