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

Deepak Raj In a small room, he spends his days in silence. His world, once filled with vibrant colours, and intricate strokes ...

Javed Akhtar talks with Subhash K Jha about his father Jaan Nisar Akhtar, noted poet and lyricist for Hindi films on his ...

The first book in Arabic about the life and poetry of the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib, titled Ghalib: A’zam Shu’ara’il-Hind ...

Ismat Chughtai was a rebel woman writer in the world of Urdu fiction. In his Foreword to Ismat’s first collection of short stories, Choten (Wounds), the eminent fiction writer of her time, Krishan ...

Trad Album” was all it said on the cover. “I was always browsing, and I would spend a lot of afternoons after lunch there,” Mullan says. “I knew that would be the ultimate find—a Nusrat unreleased ...

Critics compare Quratulain Hyder’s artistry to Austen, Tolstoy, Woolf, and Joyce, some even claiming Aag Ka Dariya surpasses One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Author and art historian F.S. Aijazuddin introduced the 16th Karachi Literature Festival on Friday evening at the Beach ...

Books have long been a powerful reflection of human experiences, shaped by authors from diverse backgrounds who write across ...

Rekhta, a prominent Indian website dedicated to promoting the Urdu language, is facing backlash for presenting renowned poets ...