Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, now in Urdu, shows how dreams can overwhelm the rational self
The two-day ninth edition of the Faisalabad Literary Festival celebrated seventy-five years of Pakistani literature and arts
Masood Ashar’s work will be remembered for years
The void left by Shamim Hanfi is colossal, the loss deep
Kazi Javed’s demise comes as a huge loss to Urdu literature
Mian Raza Rabbani explores the precarious conditions surrounding art and literature in our society
Nature is generous as it takes little and returns much. Borrowed from nature, poetic images evince jamal or an inimitable exalted beauty
Malik explores the underlying allusion to Islam in Faiz’s popular poetry and how the idea of exclusivity of Pakistani culture still exists
A look into the tradition of marsia and how it became an integral part of modern Urdu poetry
A study of two stories on Kashmir written by Manto, depicting how in Pakistan and India the notion of a nation is so deeply embedded in religion
A look at how literature guards its imaginative realm while encountering historical and social consciousness
Ahmad’s second collection of poems uses the language of silence to narrate stories of personal loss, identity and nostalgia
Dr Jameel Jalibi was an original thinker and one of the leading lights of Urdu literary criticism
As Manto interrogates both language and practices of the colonial power in many ways, his stories show that the ‘margin’ can speak to the...
She was not part of any political, social, literary or even feminist movement. There was nothing glitzier in Khalida Hussain’s life except her...
Poetry doesn’t necessarily reflect what we already know; it appears as a challenge to our usual, ordinary way of seeing things. We come across...
Celebrated largely for the depiction of feminine self in her poetry, Fahmida Riaz’s modernist-existentialist-progressive-humanist vision drew her...
Since divergence is a quintessential feature of creativity, loneliness is a kind of divergence, a sort of deviation from a normal and conformist way...
An insight into the varied literary contributions of poet, historian, philosopher and critic
Even the most skilled translator cannot be expected to faithfully grasp and transfer the elusiveness of poetry. Yet it has always been attempted...
