MAGIC and realism car­ry two apparently contradicting connotations. But a literary technique that caught the fancy... Published Dec 11, 2018 06:53am

IT seems rather difficult to delineate the past glory of Lucknow, the city in North India that was once capital of... Published Dec 04, 2018 06:59am

NOTWITHSTANDING the tumbling moral and professional standards of journalism in this age of fake news, journalism is... Published Nov 20, 2018 07:03am

MODERN literary criticism in Urdu began with Altaf Hussain Hali’s Muqaddama-i-shear-o-shaeri, the first systematic... Published Nov 13, 2018 06:52am

THIS year, too, as usual, quite a few books on Iqbal have appeared. Published Nov 05, 2018 06:42am

SOMEONE who adored Urdu, served Urdu for almost 65 years and supported Baba-i-Urdu Moulvi Abdul Haq in his campaign... Published Oct 30, 2018 06:51am

MUHAMMAD Hamza Farooqi is one of those few researchers of ours who, despite not being associated with any academic... Published Oct 22, 2018 07:05am

WHO was Urdu’s first essay writer? This may be a tricky question. Published Oct 16, 2018 06:55am

THERE are two proverbs in Urdu lexicon that pay tribute to Abdur Raheem Khan-i-Khanan’s generosity. Having stood... Published Oct 09, 2018 07:04am

ONE of the blames that our beloved (read: poor) Urdu language has to bear with is that it does not have the kind of... Published Oct 02, 2018 07:07am

“THE best fame is a writer’s fame: it’s enough to get you a table at a good restaurant, but not enough that ... Published Sep 24, 2018 07:13am

THERE is good news and bad news, but first the bad news. The sad news that Prof Dr Tahir Masood announces in the... Published Sep 18, 2018 07:04am

TAUNSA is a town in district Dera Ghazi Khan, south Punjab, in today’s Pakistan. It is one of the backward areas... Published Sep 11, 2018 06:39am

SAMUEL Huntington, the famous American political scientist, had predicted that world’s future conflicts would be... Published Sep 04, 2018 06:01am

Popular fiction is something highbrow critics frown upon. Yet popular fiction is often more popular than what is... Published Aug 27, 2018 07:09am

PETER Trudgill is one of the world’s renowned authorities on sociolinguistics and dialects. Trudgill says in his... Published Aug 20, 2018 07:08am

IN the modern age, internet has become the latest, fastest, easiest, the least expensive and the most reliable ... Published Aug 14, 2018 06:55am

THOMAS Roebuck compiled ‘An English and Hindoostanee naval dictionary of technical terms and sea phrases’. Published Aug 06, 2018 06:57am

“A sense of humour is the actual sixth sense that humans have. If one has got that sense, one passes through all... Published Jul 30, 2018 07:19am

WRITING literary history is not easy. Writing literary history with all its social and historical background is even... Published Jul 24, 2018 06:52am