MANY of the reference works done in the West are simply amazing and leave one longing for the same sort of works in... Published Jun 11, 2018 07:10am

KARACHI: Disting­uish­ed translator, short story writer, critic, researcher and University of Wisconsin’s... Published Jun 06, 2018 06:58am

“THIS book contains essays on Ghalib, but not the kind of essays read out at university seminars,” writes Asif... Published Jun 04, 2018 06:58am

“A man seldom puts his authentic self into a letter. He writes it to amuse a friend or to get rid of a social or... Published May 29, 2018 07:12am

HISTORY sometimes plays strange tricks on writers. It makes them shine and shimmer like stars, creating a halo ... Published May 22, 2018 06:57am

HASRAT Mohani is that odd one out that makes you think over and over before saying anything about him. He was a... Published May 08, 2018 06:54am

ONCE upon a time there was a nation. In that nation lived some scholars of Urdu language and literature, who had... Published May 01, 2018 07:17am

SYED Muhammad Mirza Muhazzab Lakhnavi is not a much known figure in Urdu’s literary and academic world. So is his... Published Apr 24, 2018 07:02am

ON April 21, every year we mourn the death of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the poet-philosopher or philosopher-poet,... Published Apr 16, 2018 07:26am

YAADON ki baraat, an autobiography by Josh Maleehabadi (1898-1982), first appeared in 1970 and it created quite a... Published Apr 10, 2018 06:20am

SOME misconceptions are so deep-rooted that one has to repeat some facts quite often to eradicate these... Published Apr 02, 2018 06:56am

IN the Library of Congress, it was said a few years ago, are housed over 250 books on literary criticism that... Published Mar 26, 2018 06:19am

HAZRAT Baba Fareeduddin Ganj-i-Shakar is one of the most venerable and eminent mystics of the Chishtiya order of... Published Mar 19, 2018 07:03am

IN Islamic world, there have rarely been any scholars in the modern age that can truly be described as a confluence... Published Mar 12, 2018 07:12am

WOMEN’S rights movement has come a long way and looking at festivities on international Women’s Day, ... Published Mar 06, 2018 07:00am

It was February 2006 and this writer was aboard a flight to Lahore when a fellow passenger ... Published Feb 27, 2018 06:43am

‘POLYMATHY’ is a word derived from two Greek roots meaning ‘much’ and ‘to learn’. A ‘polymath’ was a... Published Feb 20, 2018 07:02am

For the lovers of Ghalib, the special issue of Rang-i-adab has brought something to cheer about. Updated Feb 15, 2018 12:17pm

LEXICOGRAPHY is the art and science of writing dictionaries. According to R.R.K. Hart­mann, one of the... Published Feb 06, 2018 06:57am

Language variation has been a subject of huge research studies in the West. Sociolinguists say that within a society... Published Jan 30, 2018 06:54am