Stories by Syed Kashif Raza

FICTION: STORIES TO SPEND TIME WITH

A collection of Urdu short stories gathers a cast of lively characters from rural Sindh, shaping stories that blur the line... Published 03 May, 2026 09:00am

FICTION: BEAUTY IN BROKEN THINGS

A slim collection comprising a novella and a number of short stories portray a search for beauty in a disintegrating world Published 25 Jan, 2026 09:29am

FICTION: THE UNCHARTED MAZE OF THE MIND

Dreams, colonisation, relationships, literary puzzles and mortality — Nasir Abbas Nayyar’s collection of short stories attempts to Published 10 Aug, 2025 08:46am

FICTION: THE VEGETARIAN PSYCHOSIS

An Urdu translation of the most famous book by last year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Han Kang, is flawless and... Published 16 Feb, 2025 09:23am

FICTION: FAMILIARISING THE DEFAMILIARISED

Inaam Nadeem’s Urdu translation of an English translation of a Bengali language novel not only reads truer to the original, but Published 04 Sep, 2022 11:05am

POETRY: A NEW LANGUAGE, A NEW DICTION

Tanveer Anjum’s latest collection — compiling selected poems from seven previous collections — showcases the poet’s journey... Published 23 May, 2021 06:06am

IN MEMORIAM: THE SHAIR WHO LIVED ON HIS OWN TERMS

Celebrated poet, lyricist, essayist and researcher Himayat Ali Shair, who passed away on July 16, never compromised Published 28 Jul, 2019 07:00am

POETRY: ALONE IN THE CROWD

The grande dame of prose poetry has mellowed and her anger has been replaced with wistfulness about love Published 23 Sep, 2018 06:41am

IN MEMORIAM: A READERS’ WRITER

Mazhar Kaleem, who passed away on May 26, built a loyal fan base for his detective stories in Urdu Published 03 Jun, 2018 07:05am

ESSAY: THE PROBLEM WITH NOBEL 

The Nobel Prize in Literature will not be awarded this year, amid allegations of sexual misconduct against ... Published 20 May, 2018 08:02am