“THE disappearance of readers of Urdu literature is not news anymore”, writes Ather Farouqui, a scholar and secretary of Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu Hind (ATUH), Delhi. Now Urdu’s literary gatherings do ...

KARACHI: The Amazon Kindle is largely credited for revolutionising the reading experience for the new generation of bookworms. Since the release of the popular e-reader, numerous such applications and ...

Nagma Rehman has a lament in her retired life. Ms. Rehman, who retired a year ago as Urdu teacher at the Baxibagh, Government Higher Secondary School in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, says her school has ...

It has been a long brutalizing winter. Now weary with time, it’s almost desperate to cast off its burden and fade away, unloved, perhaps even forlorn. Much like famous poet Kaifi Azmi said in his ...

In translating Kundera’s Immortality into Urdu, Arshad Waheed has made a serious attempt to introduce a modern global sensibility to the Urdu reader The Urdu version of Milan Kundera’s novel ...

There are still such people in our society who love to read Urdu and appreciate this beautiful language that possesses such depth in vocabulary. It is heartening to see people make an effort to ...

In his new book, eminent critic and researcher Dr Iqbal Afaqi discusses ideas about aesthetics that are commonly out of bounds for an Urdu reader When Dr Qasim Bhugio was the chairman of the Academy ...

IN ART and literature, realism means depicting things as they are, but a fiction writer is not a historian or sociologist and, therefore, realism does not mean that a writer has to write the “detailed ...