Stories by Rauf Parekh
“BOOKS are on their way to extinction”, cynics declare ceremoniously. “Urdu books! who reads them anyway?”,...
Updated 27 Apr, 2026 08:08am
ESTABLISHING political, religious, literary and social organisations was quite a rage in the subcontinent in the ...
Published 20 Apr, 2026 07:04am
SIRHIND, pronounced Sar-hind, is a city in Indian Punjab. In Mughal era, Sirhind was considered among the big cities...
Updated 13 Apr, 2026 09:46am
“EVERYTHING is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else,” Will Rogers once quipped. But most humourists...
Published 06 Apr, 2026 08:54am
JABIR Ali Syed (1923-1985) in his book Lisani-o-Aroozi Maqaalaat (National Language Authority, Islamabad, 1989), or...
Published 30 Mar, 2026 08:30am
IMPRISONMENT of writers and poets is not something unusual and history tells us that putting authors behind bars has...
Published 23 Mar, 2026 07:04am
FASANA-I-AJAAIB, one of the Urdu’s most acclaimed specimens of ornate and embellished prose, was written in 1240...
Published 16 Mar, 2026 07:05am
ARE we living in a post-literate era? In today’s world, where digital media has taken over much of readers’ time...
Published 09 Mar, 2026 07:06am
MISCONCEPTIONS about Urdu prose abound. Many believe Urdu prose hardly existed before the revolution of 1857. Some...
Published 02 Mar, 2026 07:02am
“ON this entire globe, no one longs for my instant death more than I do. Whenever I pass by a graveyard, I am...
Published 23 Feb, 2026 07:00am
PROF Habibullah Khan Ghazanfar was among those multi-faceted diamonds that were not so rare during the first half of...
Published 16 Feb, 2026 06:40am
ALLAMA Muhammad Iqbal had a deep and lasting attachment to Kashmir, its geography and people. In his poetry, we come...
Updated 09 Feb, 2026 08:28am
JAVED Nama is viewed as Allama Iqbal’s most remarkable Persian work. In Javed Nama, Iqbal has presented, among...
Updated 05 Feb, 2026 10:49am
IT is a common sight in our country to see students running from one library to another to find source material for...
Published 26 Jan, 2026 06:21am
IN FEBRUARY 2006, Karachi’s Academy Bazyaft published a book titled Masnoo’ee Zahaanat. A literal translation of...
Updated 19 Jan, 2026 07:26am
MUST a poet know ilm-i-arooz or prosody? Some poets say no and argue that prosodic metres teach us to measure the...
Published 12 Jan, 2026 05:49am
IMMEDIATELY after the creation of Pakistan, there was an overwhelming and euphoric sense of achievement and it was...
Published 05 Jan, 2026 07:25am
A BIZARRE situation is emerging in Pakistani Urdu literature. On one hand, booksellers usually bemoan that reading...
Published 29 Dec, 2025 05:56am
“DESPOTIC, feudal and semi-industrial societies do not tolerate philosophy or social sciences because these...
Published 22 Dec, 2025 07:25am
DECEMBER 16 marks an event that many of us would like to forget: the fall of East Pakistan in 1971, or the...
Updated 15 Dec, 2025 08:33am
