Urdu Dramay kay Numainda Nisaae Kirdar: Tehqeeq, Taqabul, aur Tajzia

By Shumaila Hussain

This book is a corpus of stage, radio, and television dramas. A writer is chosen for each category, to express the author’s view of less importance being given to dramas compared to prose and poetry, and even lesser to the female characters therein. Mirza Adeeb is taken as a case study for stage, Sadat Hasan Manto for radio, and Ashfaq Ahmed for television.


Aankhein Aahan Posh

By Naheed Sultan Mirza

Aankhein Aahan Posh depicts the lives of three generations of women who, raised in the same society, still somehow have entirely different personalities.

Naheed Sultan Mirza has set her story in Iran.

The novel is created on the premise that a woman has to be steadfast in the face of adversities to be able to survive in a society such as that of Iran.


Samrup Rachna

By Dr Syed Mohammed Anwer

A gem in the unexplored realm of script combination, Samrup Rachna is a minimalist calligraphy technique, in which the lines that spell out the word, also qualify as the pictorial denotation of the word. The purpose of this calligraphic work is to highlight one of the major common denominators between India and Pakistan: language.

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