Stories by Rauf Parekh
Neeli Chhatri first appeared in 1916 from Badayun and instantly became so popular that it had to be reprinted many times over.
Updated 01 Dec, 2025 08:30am
Contrary to common belief, Faiz did not compose this poem as protest against General Ziaul Haq’s martial law.
Updated 24 Nov, 2025 09:05am
Nizami says that despite orientalists' great feats in research on Islam’s history and culture, most of them failed to comprehend the inner meanings of Islam.
Updated 17 Nov, 2025 09:38am
CRITICAL evaluation of Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s poetry began in the early 1900s when Sheikh Abdul Qadir’s article...
Published 10 Nov, 2025 10:44am
November 9 is Iqbal Day every year. But there is still debate about Allama Iqbal’s actual date and year of birth.
Updated 09 Nov, 2025 10:37am
AGHA Haider Hasan Mirza Dehlvi (1892-1976) was an incurable collector of antiques and rare manuscripts. His command...
Published 03 Nov, 2025 06:33am
“BOOKS are the carriers of civilisation. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...
Published 27 Oct, 2025 05:51am
POSTCOLONIAL discourse is not anything new: back in 1978 with the publication of Edward Said’s book Orientalism ...
Published 20 Oct, 2025 05:10am
PROF Wolfgang Mieder (born 1944) is best known for his work on paremiology. Paroemias means proverbs and paremiology...
Published 13 Oct, 2025 08:03am
In recent times, a tradition of translations from modern Persian poetry into Urdu has flourished.
Updated 06 Oct, 2025 10:30am
A MOCK trial, an imaginary defamation suit filed by Umrao Jan Ada — the eponymous heroine in the famous novel —...
Published 29 Sep, 2025 06:04am
LOVE and beloved are one of the central themes in classical Urdu poetry. Classical poets express their extreme love...
Published 22 Sep, 2025 07:52am
“IT is hard fate — to be banned — by the world, only because one has sought to be wiser than the world is,”...
Published 15 Sep, 2025 06:29am
PORTUGUESE are said to have brought the earliest printing press to the Indo-Pak subcontinent. In 1550, a Portuguese...
Published 08 Sep, 2025 06:18am
URDU magazines are in hot water: rising costs and dwindling sales have made the survival very difficult. Some of ...
Updated 01 Sep, 2025 07:02am
SYED Shah Sirajuddin Husaini, commonly known as Siraaj Aurangabadi, an ascetic who scorned worldly gains and fame,...
Published 25 Aug, 2025 05:29am
IN this age of technology when AI-generated research papers are being retracted in the West and our universities ...
Published 18 Aug, 2025 05:32am
HOW the common people felt about Iqbal’s poetry during his lifetime can be gauged from the incident that Abdul...
Published 11 Aug, 2025 05:48am
HAFIZ Shirazi, one of the greatest poets of Persian, inspired German poet Goethe’s West-Ostlicher Divan, or the...
Published 28 Jul, 2025 06:05am
One hopes the Federal Board would contact a senior lexicographer to put the books in order.
Updated 21 Jul, 2025 07:33am
