Literary Notes: Pashto proverbs: a treasure trove of Pashto language and culture
PROVERBS not only are packed with wisdom, but they also reflect the culture, society and the people who use them....
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Literary notes: A linguistic and stylistic study of Ghalib’s poetry
Stylistics is a branch of linguistics. It studies and analyzes linguistic features of texts — literary or otherwise.
literary notes: A research-based study on Urdu lexicography
“DICTIONARIES are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite ...
10 hilarious Urdu works you can read during this pandemic
We could all use a laugh during these tough times
literary notes: Golden oldies: reading Urdu’s 10 best humour works in pandemic
IN these days of doom and gloom one needs to lift one’s spirits...
literary notes: Golden oldies: reading Urdu’s 10 best humour works in pandemic
IN these days of doom and gloom one needs to lift one’s spirits...
Literary Notes: Mujtaba Hussain, his humour and Urdu in India
RENOWNED Indian Humorist of Urdu Mujtaba Hussain died in Hyderabad (India) on May 27, 2020. He was 84. For his ...
Literary Notes: Delhi Literary Society and Master Pyare Lal Ashob Dehlvi
SOME of the trends that took the fancy of natives of the subcontinent in the aftermath of the 1857 freedom war were...
LITERARY NOTES: The lethal attraction of Lahore’s history and culture
NOOR Jahan, Mughal emperor Jahangir’s wife, loved Lahore and in one of her Persian couplets has passionately...
Literary Notes: Safeer Bilgirami, his Jalwa-i-Khizr and history of Urdu literature
PROF Gian Chand Jain in his remarkable research work Urdu Ki Adabi Tareekhen, or Urdu’s literary histories, has...
Literary Notes: Mirza Farhatullah Baig and his idiomatic writings
WHEN Moulvi Nazeer Ahmed Dehlvi died, his student Mirza Farhatullah Baig wrote his pen-sketch titled ‘Nazeer Ahmed...
Literary Notes: English loanwords and loan translations in Urdu
WHAT do they call a computer mouse in Urdu? ‘Chooha’? Definitely not, as ‘chooha’ literally means ‘rat’...
Literary Notes: Urdu’s rustic songs, lives of women and commoners
RUSTIC songs and lullabies are not just songs sung to please oneself or someone else, but they are a voice from the...
Literary notes: Hafiz Mahmood Sherani’s letters: packed with rare information
PROF Hafiz Mahmood Sherani (1880-1946) was a literary colossus. Though more famous for his theory of Urdu’s origin...
Literary notes: T.G. Bailey and his works on Urdu language and literature
WHAT surprises one is the fact that many of the British colonial officers carried out exhaustive research on the...
Literary Notes: Indo-Iranian cultural history, mystics and Awaarif-ul-Maarif
SHEIKH Shahabuddin Abu Hafs Umar Bin Muhammad Suhrawardy (1145-1234) was a Sufi, philosopher and author....
Literary Notes: ‘Allah Hafiz’ was first used 180 years ago, not in 1986!
LAST week I came across an article that said ‘Allah Hafiz’ was a recent coinage and it was used for the first...
Literary Notes: Deccan’s Urdu literature and Abdul Qadir Sarwari
BACK in 1930, some scholars from Deccan had a perception that Moulvi Abdul Haq was not publishing enough works by ...
Literary Notes: Farhang-i-Aamira: a glossary of Arabic, Persian and Turkish words used in Urdu
WHAT is a glossary? A glossary is “a type of reference work which lists a selection of words or phrases, or terms...
Literary Notes: Meena Kumari, Pyare Lal Shakir Meruthi and journalism
THE writers and journalists whose contributions enriched Urdu language and literature in the early 20th century...