Stories by Rauf Parekh
MISCONCEPTIONS about Urdu prose abound. Many believe Urdu prose hardly existed before the revolution of 1857. Some...
Published 02 Mar, 2026 07:02am
“ON this entire globe, no one longs for my instant death more than I do. Whenever I pass by a graveyard, I am...
Published 23 Feb, 2026 07:00am
PROF Habibullah Khan Ghazanfar was among those multi-faceted diamonds that were not so rare during the first half of...
Published 16 Feb, 2026 06:40am
ALLAMA Muhammad Iqbal had a deep and lasting attachment to Kashmir, its geography and people. In his poetry, we come...
Updated 09 Feb, 2026 08:28am
JAVED Nama is viewed as Allama Iqbal’s most remarkable Persian work. In Javed Nama, Iqbal has presented, among...
Updated 05 Feb, 2026 10:49am
IT is a common sight in our country to see students running from one library to another to find source material for...
Published 26 Jan, 2026 06:21am
IN FEBRUARY 2006, Karachi’s Academy Bazyaft published a book titled Masnoo’ee Zahaanat. A literal translation of...
Updated 19 Jan, 2026 07:26am
MUST a poet know ilm-i-arooz or prosody? Some poets say no and argue that prosodic metres teach us to measure the...
Published 12 Jan, 2026 05:49am
IMMEDIATELY after the creation of Pakistan, there was an overwhelming and euphoric sense of achievement and it was...
Published 05 Jan, 2026 07:25am
A BIZARRE situation is emerging in Pakistani Urdu literature. On one hand, booksellers usually bemoan that reading...
Published 29 Dec, 2025 05:56am
“DESPOTIC, feudal and semi-industrial societies do not tolerate philosophy or social sciences because these...
Published 22 Dec, 2025 07:25am
DECEMBER 16 marks an event that many of us would like to forget: the fall of East Pakistan in 1971, or the...
Updated 15 Dec, 2025 08:33am
THOMAS Roebuck was a 19th-centruy Scottish orientalist and lexicographer. Roebuck knew Urdu, Hindi and Persian quite...
Published 08 Dec, 2025 06:36am
Neeli Chhatri first appeared in 1916 from Badayun and instantly became so popular that it had to be reprinted many times over.
Updated 01 Dec, 2025 08:30am
Contrary to common belief, Faiz did not compose this poem as protest against General Ziaul Haq’s martial law.
Updated 24 Nov, 2025 09:05am
Nizami says that despite orientalists' great feats in research on Islam’s history and culture, most of them failed to comprehend the inner meanings of Islam.
Updated 17 Nov, 2025 09:38am
CRITICAL evaluation of Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s poetry began in the early 1900s when Sheikh Abdul Qadir’s article...
Published 10 Nov, 2025 10:44am
November 9 is Iqbal Day every year. But there is still debate about Allama Iqbal’s actual date and year of birth.
Updated 09 Nov, 2025 10:37am
AGHA Haider Hasan Mirza Dehlvi (1892-1976) was an incurable collector of antiques and rare manuscripts. His command...
Published 03 Nov, 2025 06:33am
“BOOKS are the carriers of civilisation. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...
Published 27 Oct, 2025 05:51am
