In this book of essays, Rakhshanda Jalil shines a light on the inclusive and pluralistic nature of Urdu poetry ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes ... Like T S ...

Oral historian Sohail Hashmi into a new wave of dissent in Urdu poetry at a Delhi workshop earlier this month. ‘It’s asking ...

Many of the popular Urdu masnavis are love stories, for example, Naseem’s ‘Gulzar-i-Naseem’ and Mir Hasan Dehlvi’s ...

THIS Persian couplet, written by Empress Noor Jahan (1577-1645), can roughly be translated as: I have given life and bought ...

By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry. Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms. The masnavi, for example, is a long ...

Among those who bled the evocation of the lost city in their accounts were Munshi Faizuddin, Rashid-ul-Khairi, Nasir Nazeer ...

By analyzing the texts of famous Urdu writers in tautly-rendered poised prose, the book offers an alternative vision of our lived reality. The book also includes essays on Urdu journalism, tracing its ...

Punjab University Library Book Club Friday organised introductory talks on two books—one in English and another in Urdu.

An engaging miscellany of books It is a well-written travelogue by Zubair Nabi, a veteran jurist, politician, and writer from ...

For decades, Urdu Bazaar wasn’t just about selling books—it was a hub of Urdu printing, publishing, and poetry. Also known as Kitab Bazaar or Urdu Mandir, it began with just a few shops in ...

The Turkish Consulate General in Karachi, in collaboration with the Yunus Emre Institute, organized a special event titled “Love for ...