Rauf Parekh

IT is heartening to note that our young researchers and critics are now turning towards modern ... Published 10 May, 2021 06:38am

AN interesting debate that usually ensues in classrooms — during discussions on what poetry is and what really... Published 03 May, 2021 05:45am

ANJUMAN Taraqqi-i-Urdu Hind (ATUH), Delhi, has recently reprinted Armughan-i-Aligarh, a book by Prof Khaliq Ahmed... Published 26 Apr, 2021 07:00am

RARELY have we ever heard of something sung to wake up a child, though lullabies, or a song or poem sung to put a... Published 19 Apr, 2021 06:17am

IT seems that almost everybody has decided to take up writing an autobiography or memoir, as the overwhelming flow ... Published 12 Apr, 2021 07:09am

INTERNATIONAL Children’s Book Day is observed every year in the first week of April. It coincides with Hans... Published 29 Mar, 2021 07:04am

AMEER Meenai (1829-1900) was a multi-faceted diamond: he was a poet, lexicographer, prose writer, Sufi, scholar,... Published 22 Mar, 2021 07:25am

“SOME books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered,” said W. H. Auden. Urdu Mein Lok Adab, Published 15 Mar, 2021 05:59am

“DOING business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. Published 08 Mar, 2021 07:07am

ABOUT a decade and a half ago, Higher Education Commission (HEC) made it mandatory for university teachers to get a... Published 01 Mar, 2021 07:23am

LATELY, 300th death anniversary of great Persian poet Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil Azeemabadi was commemorated in five... Published 22 Feb, 2021 08:03am

FEBRUARY 15 marks death anniversary of Ghalib (1797-1869), one of the great poets of Urdu. But he was as great a... Published 15 Feb, 2021 07:34am

THERE was a time when Aal-e-Ahmed Suroor was so well-known a critic of Urdu that his articles invoked debates. Those... Published 08 Feb, 2021 05:30am

Why are our poets and writers reluctant to support Kashmir’s freedom movement? Published 01 Feb, 2021 07:03am

Many of us can call to mind the confusion when we think of the debate on inshaiyya, which raged for quite some time... Published 25 Jan, 2021 07:07am

It’s been exactly 43 years since Muhammad Hasan Askari, one of Urdu’s most formidable critics, died. Ever since his death on Published 18 Jan, 2021 08:04am

WHICH is the first novel ever written in Urdu? Which are the best and/or important Urdu novels written during the... Published 11 Jan, 2021 07:30am

“THE United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language”. This famous quote,... Published 04 Jan, 2021 07:02am

ALTHOUGH it seemed that Covid-19 would affect literary activities badly as lockdown had forced bookshops and... Published 28 Dec, 2020 07:07am

Nasrullah Khan had borrowed the title of his interesting autobiography Ik Shakhs Mujhi Sa Tha from this couplet and it describes Published 14 Dec, 2020 06:59am