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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From the Jhula Maidan in Madanpura, the road tapers off to a narrow street that leads to the massive Arab Masjid.

A village of Meenas in Rajasthan has discovered an unlikely but effective route to government jobs. It is through Urdu. Almost every young person in this village in Tonk district is in a race to learn ...