Rauf Parekh

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

MAREHRA, also reverently known as Marehra Sharif, is a city in district of Etah, UP, India. Those who belong to... Published 22 Aug, 2022 06:04am

Over the years, Pakistani Urdu literature has developed differently from its Indian counterpart and reflects ideological battles Published 14 Aug, 2022 07:12am

BAITAL is a Sanskrit word and is also used in Urdu, though not commonly these days. Baital means ghost, demon, ... Published 01 Aug, 2022 04:04am

MANSEL Longworth Dames (1850-1922) was a strange fellow: he learnt several eastern languages, such as Balochi and... Published 25 Jul, 2022 06:00am

Her male-sounding name notwithstanding, British writer George Eliot (1819-1880) was a woman. Born Mary Ann Evans, she was a... Published 24 Jul, 2022 10:00am

LALLESHWARI, also known as Lalla Arifa, was a 14th-century woman mystic poet from Kashmir. Her poetry is believed to... Published 18 Jul, 2022 07:47am

Badayuni was known for explaining and teaching qaseedas by Khaqani and Maumin with great ease. Updated 04 Jul, 2022 08:10am

ARABIC word naql has many connotations. For example, it may invoke the ideas of copying, imitating, mimicking,... Published 27 Jun, 2022 06:56am

WE are not a nation of bookworms and have never been. Yet there is a considerable percentage of population that ... Published 20 Jun, 2022 07:25am

IT is a general perception, albeit flawed, that religious-minded Muslims and especially Muslim scholars are against... Published 13 Jun, 2022 07:07am

WHILE comparing Urdu literature written in India and Pakistan, it is a commonly held view that as far as creative... Published 06 Jun, 2022 07:17am

IT hurts when one hears the oft-repeated lament that “Urdu books do not sell”. But the fact is every now and ... Published 30 May, 2022 04:26am

CONTRARY to general perception, educational institutes have been working in Indo-Pak subcontinent since long. Even ... Published 23 May, 2022 07:23am

MONTH of May evokes memories of the 1857 war of freedom: it began on May 10, 1857, and officially ended on June 20,... Published 16 May, 2022 05:40am

THE Battle of Plassey was fought on June 23, 1757, between the British East India Company and Siraj-ud-daula, the... Published 09 May, 2022 05:45am

FOLK literature is a strange phenomenon in the sense that it proffers humanistic and universal notions that ... Published 02 May, 2022 06:29am