Rauf Parekh
URDU orthography, or the traditional spelling rules that govern the writing of Urdu language, has always been a bone...
Published 20 Jan, 2025 06:19am
OVER the centuries, there have been many a European who learnt and loved Urdu and then carried out some academic ...
Published 13 Jan, 2025 06:18am
AS if publishers’ laments of dwindling book sales were not enough, a new trend in Pakistan’s publishing business...
Published 06 Jan, 2025 05:46am
“I CONFESS I owe a great deal to Hegel, Goethe, Mirza Ghalib, Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil and Wordsworth. The first ...
Published 30 Dec, 2024 07:35am
“IT has become a common practice among researchers to base their papers written on Mir Taqi Mir on a few old books...
Published 23 Dec, 2024 08:12am
THIS couplet, taken from poem ‘Zauq-o-Shauq’ in Iqbal’s Baal-i-Jibreel, can roughly be translated as: my ghazal has traces of a
Published 16 Dec, 2024 11:59pm
VETERAN scholar and poet Aslam Ansari passed away in Multan on Oct 22, 2024. What made Ansari stand out among his...
Published 09 Dec, 2024 06:20am
PAKISTAN is a linguistic paradise and anyone desiring to carry out some research on indigenous Pakistani languages...
Updated 02 Dec, 2024 07:10am
NO scholar working on Urdu fiction can afford to ignore Qurratul Ain Hyder (1927-2007), one of the greatest fiction...
Published 25 Nov, 2024 07:48am
KHURJA, a city in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, was known for its achar shaljam (turnip pickle), Tabrezi (a kind of...
Published 18 Nov, 2024 08:16am
Prof Sabir spent almost 40 years going through a mountain of material criticising Iqbal and replying to their arguments against the poet.
Updated 11 Nov, 2024 11:37am
ALLAMA Muhammad Iqbal’s poetic genius has been acknowledged far and wide. But in his own days, especially early in...
Published 04 Nov, 2024 07:11am
A POPULAR but unauthenticated story suggests that Hafiz Shirazi, the legendary Persian poet, was a soothsayer and...
Updated 28 Oct, 2024 11:47am
IN ART and literature, realism means depicting things as they are, but a fiction writer is not a historian or...
Published 21 Oct, 2024 08:23am
A BIBLIOGRAPHY is “a list of sources referred to in a particular work” and “a list of the books of a specific...
Published 14 Oct, 2024 08:01am
In many cases, by Hindustani, the compilers of early dictionaries and early grammars meant Urdu.
Updated 07 Oct, 2024 12:00pm
IT is often said that masnavi, also pronounced mathnavi, is derived from an Arabic word and it means, literally:...
Published 30 Sep, 2024 08:18am
THIS Persian couplet, written by Empress Noor Jahan (1577-1645), can roughly be translated as:
Published 23 Sep, 2024 07:14am
Seeratun Nabi covers not only all important events of the life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) but also almost every aspect of his life and teachings with references.
Updated 16 Sep, 2024 10:46am
These letters, published in a book by Dr Zahid Aamir, shed new light on both poets' personalities and their thoughts.
Updated 09 Sep, 2024 10:38am
