Rauf Parekh

IRFAN Javed has named his new book Aadmi and not insaan. Aadmi is a word that has many connotations in Urdu. Though sometimes Published 30 Jan, 2023 08:17am

ABOUT a century ago, in our villages and small towns, especially in some areas in northern Punjab, educational... Published 23 Jan, 2023 07:06am

DASTAN is among Urdu’s classical genres that have their unique characteristics. A dastan is a long, fantasy tale... Published 09 Jan, 2023 11:43pm

“THOSE who have money do not read and those who read do not have money,” was the mantra one of my friends used ... Published 02 Jan, 2023 07:01am

AN editorial note in January 1958 issue of literary journal Ma’arif expressed deep grief over death of Updated 26 Dec, 2022 09:12pm

IN addition to making more money in their spare time, rich people may take up many other hobbies, for instance,... Published 19 Dec, 2022 07:03am

Nasir Abbas Nayyar is a scholar whose style is becoming clearer by the day, as his newest book, applying modern critical the Published 18 Dec, 2022 04:40am

LITERARY historiography has come a long way in Urdu. Beginning from Muhammad Husain Azad’s legendary Aab-i-Hayat... Published 12 Dec, 2022 07:55am

“THIS is not a novel to be thrown aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force,” wrote Dorothy Parker, ... Published 28 Nov, 2022 08:11am

“ALL history is the history of thought,” R. G. Collingwood, the English philosopher and historian, once ... Published 21 Nov, 2022 07:56am

‘THOSE who live in a glasshouse should change clothes in dark’, goes the anti-proverb, parodying the last part ... Published 08 Nov, 2022 05:13am

JULIA Kristeva, the feminist and critic, is usually credited with coining the term intertextuality. It basically... Published 31 Oct, 2022 03:40am

PAKISTAN is a linguistic paradise from a linguist’s point of view as in just two of its regions —... Published 24 Oct, 2022 07:08am

OCTOBER 17 marks birth anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (1817-1898), one of the colossi who helped shape not only... Published 17 Oct, 2022 07:30am

ELENA Bashir in her article ‘Urdu and linguistics: a fraught but evolving relationship’, published in Wisconsin... Published 03 Oct, 2022 06:45am

PUT in simple words, gender tells us whether a noun or pronoun is male or female. Technically speaking, in grammar,... Published 26 Sep, 2022 04:30am

IN this era of selfies, often described as the era of narcissism, how can a poet hide their poetry from the public... Published 19 Sep, 2022 04:00am

NO matter how strange it may sound, the fact is though Urdu was born in North India, its earliest written literary... Published 12 Sep, 2022 04:43am

AS the year 1969 was approaching, the lovers of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869) were preparing for a... Published 05 Sep, 2022 03:32am

ASIDE from his military and political feats, Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan (1556-1627) is renowned as a poet and ... Published 29 Aug, 2022 03:48am