Trends - Urdu Literature

How Ibne Safi taught an entire generation to read

As reading shifts from shared print cultures to fragmented digital feeds, what happens to the common habits that once anchored public life?

Published 07 Jan, 2026 12:41pm

Why guess when you can decode? Teaching diacritics could unlock Urdu for every child.

Updated 23 Jul, 2025 02:21pm

Krishn Kanhaiya represents a deeply syncretic form of South Asian identity.

Updated 14 Nov, 2017 02:40pm

On what makes the author such a master storyteller and a literary icon

Published 26 Jul, 2015 07:15am

Tracing the writer’s popularity and his influence on the Urdu novel

Published 18 Jul, 2015 07:57am

Novelist Khalid Javaid excels at exploring the dark aspects of life as evident in his second novel

Published 28 Jun, 2015 07:36am

What the compilation of Zulmat-e-Neem Roz tells us about literary history

Published 11 May, 2015 07:20am

The language in the digital world

Published 29 Mar, 2015 06:47am

Ikramullah is a realist. While describing things he never cares to be romantic. Such is the art of this novelist.

Published 15 Mar, 2015 06:35am

By Saba Ijaz

Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am