The writer is a Pakistan-born and Austria-based poet in Urdu and English. He teaches South Asian Literature & Culture at Vienna University.
Poetry’s capacity to resist, rupture and protest remains essential to how we understand our world
David Grossman’s description of Gaza as genocide reminds us that literature has a duty to confront violence and resist silence
A personal reflection on a scholar whose quiet influence continues to shape minds
Unravelling the absence of women’s comic voices in literature
Deeply penetrating, powerful, thought-provoking: recounting the legacy of Zaitoon Bano, one of Pakistan’s most unique voices
An anthology of poems by women about the discrimination against and oppression of women in South Asia
Despite women playing a significant role in the literary arena, it has mostly been a man’s business
Profile of poet and ghazal writer, Seemab Zafar
The plight of writers in India have gotten worse under the Modi government
A look at poet, literary translator and anthologist Sarita Jenamani’s life and works
Writers who continue to write in their native languages in a linguistically alien country, speak perpetually to people in the lands they have left...
Women writing poetry is a phenomenon that need not only be acknowledged but also examined literarily
Muhammad Khalid is a poet who sticks to his poetic truth -- at the cost of remaining lesser known
In South Asia, choosing to write in one language and not the other could be a subtle political statement
Sajjad Baqar Rizvi’s dynamic voice continues to echo in the hearts of many successive generations of his students
Taking a look at Mujh Se Pehli Si Muhabbat from a previously unexplored perspective
It is time to question the perspectives our literature offers on women, their bodies and their beings
Pakistan inherited some fine writers from the Indian Civil Service. That tradition of bureaucrat-writers still flourishes today
Speaking about literature in terms of a Hindu-Muslim divide might seem politically incorrect but, at times, it is necessary to have a ‘communal’...
What if the present is some sheer absurdity and the future nothing more than a fathomless illusion?
