IT has become a trend in recent years to commemorate the centennial or bicentennial of a writer or poet, and it is ... Published Apr 16, 2019 07:01am

IRFAN Javed is a voracious reader and a writer, too. He writes fiction, pen-sketches and, perhaps for a change,... Published Apr 09, 2019 07:01am

EVERY year, in the first week of April, International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated. It is meant to... Published Apr 02, 2019 06:42am

IT is quite strange but true that several foreigners have carried out monumental research on many Pakistani... Published Mar 26, 2019 07:06am

THOUGH the Arabic word ‘hakeem’ now in Urdu means a practitioner of eastern medicine or physician... Published Mar 18, 2019 07:01am

PROF Reynold A. Nicholson (1868-1945) was an orientalist. A renowned scholar and professor of Arabic and Persian at... Published Mar 11, 2019 07:20am

They depict how women perceive the world and how they feel about it. Published Mar 05, 2019 01:41pm

IN the realm of literature, just like many other domains, women have come a long way. Urdu literature, too, ... Published Mar 05, 2019 07:07am

Inducing a well-known personality to talk candidly, then listening carefully and reporting it honestly but in an... Published Feb 25, 2019 07:26am

MIRZA Asadullah Khan Ghalib has many distinctions and one of them is that Ghalib is,... Published Feb 19, 2019 07:11am

Geniuses are gifted with unusual creativity and vision and, therefore, are often ahead of their time. This gift... Published Feb 11, 2019 07:12am

“BOOKS are the carriers of civilisation. Without books history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,... Published Feb 05, 2019 06:58am

CONTRARY to what is commonly believed, feminism in Urdu literature is not something new. Published Jan 29, 2019 07:00am

A FEW years ago, a relative of ours approached us. Visibly shocked and absolutely nervous, he wanted some of us to ... Published Jan 22, 2019 07:02am

A proverb is wisdom packed in a brief and crisp sentence. Published Jan 15, 2019 06:44am

The queen learned Urdu for about 13 years. Updated Jan 07, 2019 09:39am

SOME interesting trends were manifest when it comes to Pakistani Urdu literature published in 2018. The... Published Jan 01, 2019 07:01am

THE Arabic word muqaddama has many variant connotations in Urdu and one of them is ‘foreword’ or ‘preface’.... Published Dec 25, 2018 07:05am

HOW many books have been translated into Urdu from different languages on different topics so far? The estimated... Published Dec 18, 2018 06:59am

MAGIC and realism car­ry two apparently contradicting connotations. But a literary technique that caught the fancy... Published Dec 11, 2018 06:53am