The popularity of Jaun Elia’s deceptively simple verse, which has become all the rage with the youth, often obscures the depth...
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Zehra Nigah’s latest collection of poetry — only her fifth ever — deals often with themes of home, ageing, loneliness and the...
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Eminent critic and writer Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered a lecture at the Arts Council of Pakistan in Karachi on May 30, 2025,
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Dr Tariq Rahman’s book on Ghalib is an exceptional scholarly work that might prompt new thinking on a few themes in classical...
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An English translation of a Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai novella puts an end to the general amnesia about the worth and significance
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Amjad Islam Amjad, who passed away February 10, was, in the jargon of mushaira organisers, a ‘crowd-puller’. His immense...
Published19 Feb, 202308:50am
Noted Urdu critic Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered the keynote speech at the inaugural session of the 15th International Urdu Con...
Published01 Jan, 202307:44am
Gopi Chand Narang, who passed away on June 15, was a towering scholar who kept reiterating the secular, tolerant, inclusive...
Published26 Jun, 202211:52am
Harris Khalique’s latest book of poetry celebrates the lives and audaciousness of the marginalised as a way of speaking truth...
Published16 Jan, 202206:59am
Mustansar Hussain Tarar’s latest works, as always, negotiate the ‘gap’ between imagined and real worlds, between what the...
Updated26 Dec, 202104:30pm
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, who passed away on December 25, was a true giant of Urdu literature — a critic, a poet, a novelist,...
Published03 Jan, 202107:31am
Asif Farrukhi, who passed away on June 1, was more than just a fiction writer, an essayist, a critic, a translator or a literary festival organiser. He was truly a giant of global literature...
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