Urdu poetry is well renowned for its rich past, enormous beauty, and complexity in expressions. For those willing to start to ...

We listened with bated breath as Mirza Ghalib took us all the way back to 19th-century Mughal India to share his life’s joys ...

ZE, khe and sheen are in fact three letters of Urdu alphabet that denote the sounds z, kh and sh. These are the initials for ...

Hindi, better known as ‘Saare Jahan se Achha’, is regarded today as the ideological father of Pakistan. In recent years, the ...

More than 200 literary luminaries from the country and across the Pakistani diaspora will take part in the 16th edition of ...

In the years she spent in India, Fahmida Riaz wrote a significant but underappreciated body of poems. When read together, ...

Pakistani literature has developed significantly over the years, with authors from diverse backgrounds enriching fiction, ...

The Country Without a Post Office (1997) in particular, is a deeply evocative and politically charged collection of poetry that grapples with the devastation in Kashmir during the 1990s insurgency, ...

he relationship between a city and literature is reciprocal. The city nourishes the imagination of writers while writers ...

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s flirtations with religiosity continued to afflict Bangladesh’s body politic much after his death.

Though the number of pilgrims at Maha Kumbh is many times more than at Haj, a lot can be learned from the “crowd management” ...