A 400-page anthology of the poetry of Mir Taqi Mir, presented in Urdu, Hindi and English alongside an insightful commentary, makes the 18th century poet’s work more accessible to the contemporary Angl ...

The possibility of a drama series on the life of poet Allama Iqbal was discussed on Tuesday during a meeting between Pakistan’s Minister of Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar and a ...

Jameela Nishat gives us a profound gift – a set of poems that are evocative, poignant, provocative and insightful.

Director General and Executive Director of the National Language Promotion Department (NLPD) have expressed profound grief and sorrow ...

Instead, he encountered a resolute cold shoulder. Friends and fellow writers refused to meet him, mourning his silence during the 1971 atrocities -- the massacre of students, intellectuals, and ...

It is rare for a fiction writer to portray his city and its crushed inhabitants in a manner that allows an entirely new world to emerge before the reader. A world that, despite its resemblance to the ...

I did not learn Urdu as a political act. I learned it as a way of being. Before language hardened into identity, before accents were weaponised and scripts scrutinised, before words were asked to ...

The Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) is set to return for its 17th edition from February 6 to 8 at the Beach Luxury Hotel, continuing its tradition of remaining free and open to the public.Organised ...

In 1950, the Constituent Assembly placed Jana Gana Mana at the heart of the Republic and limited Vande Mataram’s official role. Revisiting that balance today raises deeper questions about India’s ...

Irshad Ahmad Mughal & Dr. Quratal Ain Rana The relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan is rooted not merely in contemporary politics ...

For years now, the suburban Mumbaikar has squeezed into trains bound for CSMT, Churchgate, Andheri or Bandra, to catch gig nights and show openings. It would seem like culture has finally boarded a ...