The author is a broadcaster, linguist and media teacher, divides his time between London and Lahore.
It was a sunny afternoon in the summer of 1994 in London. After having a sumptuous lunch with Hamraz Ahsan, I was going back to my BBC office in...
Mirza Athar Baig’s debut novel Ghulam Bagh is generally considered the first post-modern novel in Urdu. His second novel Sifr Se Aik Tak was...
Qissa Guru Dutt ka was Zahid Akkasi’s last manuscript which he completed before his death in January 2013. He was also compiling a book on...
Why has the history of film gained so much attention lately? This question actually falls in the realm of cultural anthropology. A layman’s...
Dr Gopi Chand Narang was born in Dukki, Balochistan on February 11, 1931. After completing his Masters in Urdu from the University of Delhi in 1954,...
Ghalib rightly said: "Shohrat-e-shairum bageeti baad-e-munn khahad shudan" . Maulana Hali was the first person to fully appreciate the subtle...
Pakistan abounds in literary forums, boards, academies, foundations and organisations: The National Language Authority, National Book Foundation,...
Harris Khalique has won the UBL-Jang Literary Excellence Award for poetry for his Urdu collection ‘Mailay Mein’. He is not in favour of...
"Autobiography is the strangest of genres…" says famous Urdu writer and critic Mushfiq Khwaja, "it is supposed to tell you something about...
