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MIRZA Ghalib, one of the greatest poets that Urdu has ever produced, has enticed and intrigued some of the great... Published Dec 02, 2019 07:17am

DR SYED Abdullah once remarked that Sir Syed Ahmed Khan’s too much stress on being rational was one of the reasons... Published Nov 26, 2019 07:05am

SHANUL Haq Haqqee (1917-2005) can be described as one of the few towering literary personalities of our times to whom... Published Nov 19, 2019 06:57am

MIRZA Mahmood Sarhadi was a poet of Urdu and known for his satirical and humorous verses. As he was considered a... Published Nov 05, 2019 07:04am

TODAY’S writers and poets of Urdu often lament that they are rarely paid any royalties, if at all, and everyone in... Published Oct 28, 2019 06:49am

KARACHI is not an old city. It was just a small fishing village in the 1700s and was called Kolachi Jo Goth — ... Published Oct 21, 2019 07:08am

HARDLY ever has one person carried out such varied tasks, learnt so many diverse languages and written such ... Published Oct 15, 2019 07:04am

A former career diplomat’s autobiography is full of sometimes hilarious and sometimes depressing anecdotes about Published Oct 13, 2019 07:05am

STRANGE are the ways of destiny. Sometimes writers become celebrities without much toil and moil... Published Oct 08, 2019 07:05am

PUBLISHING one’s poetry electronically has gathered so much currency that many of today’s poets of Urdu do not... Published Sep 30, 2019 06:54am

ONE of the Urdu short-story writers who began writing quite early and penned some very fine stories was Ali Abbas ... Published Sep 24, 2019 06:59am

PROF Dr Qazi Afzaal Hussain is a veteran scholar from India. He is known for his critical works and when it comes to... Published Sep 16, 2019 06:56am

ALTHOUGH the recent developments in India-occupied Kashmir are very disturbing and the reaction from the Muslim ... Published Sep 09, 2019 06:46am

RECORDING the departure of fellow mortals from this world has quite a long history, though sometimes it is derisively Published Sep 02, 2019 07:43am

OUDH PUNCH, or Avadh Punch, was an Urdu humour magazine. Launched on Jan 16, 1877 and published weekly from Lucknow,... Published Aug 27, 2019 07:01am

ABOUT two decades ago, this writer came across an elderly English couple at a hotel in Swat. We seemed to have... Published Aug 19, 2019 07:02am

KARACHI: Urdu poetry has often been accused of being too limited and narrowly focussed on a few themes such as love... Published Aug 14, 2019 07:04am

THE strange thing about grammar is that the native speakers of a language do not need it, at least while learning it... Published Aug 06, 2019 06:53am

THE word ghazal is derived from an Arabic root and it means ‘to talk amorously to women’. According to some... Published Jul 30, 2019 05:42am

Hamd is a poetic genre that exclusively praises Allah. Published Jul 22, 2019 06:50am