Stories by Nasir Abbas Nayyar
Before AI, writers could spend hours or days searching for the right word, character or form. Today, they don't need to.
Updated 01 Oct, 2026 06:16pm
With artificial intelligence able to churn out words instantaneously, even imitating and combining the stylistic and technical
Published 27 Sep, 2026 07:26am
The popularity of Jaun Elia’s deceptively simple verse, which has become all the rage with the youth, often obscures the depth...
Published 01 Mar, 2026 09:21am
Ghazi sahib’s fictional prose is remarkably creative, engaging and captivating.
Published 25 Nov, 2025 05:42pm
Ghazi sahib’s fictional prose is remarkably creative, engaging and captivating, allowing it to still resonate with readers.
Updated 25 Nov, 2025 05:30pm
Zehra Nigah’s latest collection of poetry — only her fifth ever — deals often with themes of home, ageing, loneliness and the...
Published 31 Aug, 2025 09:35am
Eminent critic and writer Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered a lecture at the Arts Council of Pakistan in Karachi on May 30, 2025,
Published 22 Jun, 2025 06:39am
Dr Tariq Rahman’s book on Ghalib is an exceptional scholarly work that might prompt new thinking on a few themes in classical...
Published 30 Sep, 2024 03:49pm
An English translation of a Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai novella puts an end to the general amnesia about the worth and significance
Published 04 Aug, 2024 09:11am
A new book presents a serious critical study of Mustansar Hussain Tarar’s novels
Published 25 Feb, 2024 09:32am
Asghar Nadeem Syed’s newest novel blurs fact and fiction in musing over the lost years of Gen Zia’s dictatorship
Published 06 Aug, 2023 09:00am
Commemorating Mir Taqi Mir, the undisputed master of Rekhta, in the 300th year of his birth
Updated 18 Apr, 2023 03:31pm
Amjad Islam Amjad, who passed away February 10, was, in the jargon of mushaira organisers, a ‘crowd-puller’. His immense...
Published 19 Feb, 2023 08:50am
Noted Urdu critic Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered the keynote speech at the inaugural session of the 15th International Urdu Con...
Published 01 Jan, 2023 07:44am
Gopi Chand Narang, who passed away on June 15, was a towering scholar who kept reiterating the secular, tolerant, inclusive...
Published 26 Jun, 2022 11:52am
A collection of more than 100 poems from 16 South Asian languages, translated into Urdu, is a treat for lovers of poetry
Published 05 Jun, 2022 10:47am
Harris Khalique’s latest book of poetry celebrates the lives and audaciousness of the marginalised as a way of speaking truth...
Published 16 Jan, 2022 06:59am
Mustansar Hussain Tarar’s latest works, as always, negotiate the ‘gap’ between imagined and real worlds, between what the...
Updated 26 Dec, 2021 04:30pm
Words have a cultural and political history. And the latter often involves manipulations and assertion of power...
Published 29 Aug, 2021 07:06am
Naseer Turabi, who passed away on January 10, had only two slim volumes of poetry to his name, but his...
Published 17 Jan, 2021 06:55am
