Bilal Ahmed is a journalist working at The News's Karachi Desk. He occasionally covers culture and art.
Dr Anjum Altaf, author, economist and the first provost of the Habib University. — Facebook/Habib University/FilePoets like Ghalib are...
Calligrapher Naveed Maroof teaches calligraphy to his students in Karachi. — Printed in The News/FileAt around 11am on Saturday morning at a...
A child performer sings music at All Pakistan Music Conference in Karachi on May 23, 2023. — Facebook/The All Pakistan Music Conference...
View of National Museum of Pakistan building image released on September 27, 2022. — Facebook/National Museum of Pakistan KarachiThe second day of...
The image is a poster of ‘Rasan Piya’, a documentary by Niharika Popli, an Indian documentary filmmaker about classical vocalist Ustad Abdul...
Since the authorities are not accustomed to hard thinking, they often go for the solution of constructing a flyover to solve traffic congestion in...
Submissions have begun for the National Poem Project Pakistan that will culminate in November with the announcement of the Pakistan’s first-ever...
Much of Ghalib’s poetry is not easy to grasp, due to which the poet has been extensively studied by critics and literary scholars from his time...
Continuing with the lecture series to celebrate the 25 years of the Mohatta Palace Museum, the museum administration on Saturday held an interesting...
Veteran journalist Nadir Shah Adil passed away in Karachi on Saturday. He had been bedridden for some time due to illnesses. Veteran...
The development of website www.dastaan.io and its corresponding mobile phone Android app, which can convert images of printed Urdu text in the...
The National Academy of Performing Arts on Thursday hosted a musical event to launch a book on classical musicians ‘Great Masters Pakistani...
Performers are performing music of German instrumentalists under the band Ensemble 4.1, who played chamber music compositions by Beethoven and...
As one would expect from literary scholar and poet Dr Taqi Abedi, his speech on Allama Iqbal was a treat for every knowledge seeker in attendance at...
A short thriller was staged on Friday at the Arts Council of Pakistan where the Pakistan Theatre Festival is under way till Sunday, October 8.Titled...
The setting of a sanatorium in a play likely signifies a tragedy. However, it turned out differently in the case of ‘Shaam Bhi Thi Dhuan Dhuan’,...
After several years of working on a project to engage with budding talents for the creation of music through beautiful poetry with meeting the...
Finding the recitation of Qudratullah Shahab’s piece Chandravati from his well-known autobiography Shahabnama in the programme of the Pakistan...
The Pakistan Theatre Festival treated the audience to a laughter fest on Sunday by staging two comedies. The first one was ‘Gadha Mandi’, which...
Lexicographer and literary scholar Dr Rauf Parekh has indeed done a service by compiling his articles on various aspects of Urdu morphology ...
Legend has it that Mughal Emperor Jehangir had installed a chain with a bell outside his palace so that anyone with a legitimate grievance could...
At the time when the attention span of people has been constantly shrinking, playing Raag Jhinjhoti for over an hour might not have been a wise...
Throwing Taleem-e-Balighan into the mix of the Pakistan Theatre Festival 2023’s offerings was a safe bet as the play penned by Khawaja Moinuddin...
Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek must have written his famous satirical play ‘The Police’ against the backdrop of the communist totalitarianism...
It was not with great expectations this scribe entered a studio of the Arts Council on Saturday afternoon to witness an improvisation theatre titled...
With a large number of veteran drama artistes, theatre practitioners, foreign dignitaries and government functionaries gracing the occasion, the...
The union of anti-Pakistan Peoples Party political forces in Sindh, especially Sindhi nationalist groups as well as parties that are considered to...
The Arts Council of Pakistan initiated on Saturday a monthly lecture series featuring talks of distinguished writers, poets and critics on literary...
The Urban Word, a literary organisation in the United States that provides platform to young writers to showcase and develop their talents and is...
The visual art form of the Japanese floral arrangement Ikebana and the auditory art form of the Indian classical music were presented in a unifying...
It was a treat for the aficionados of the Indian classical music, it was a treat for the lovers of ghazal singing, and it was a treat for those who...
The electrifying Taans emanating from the chest during a classical music mehfil at the Pak American Cultural Centre on Saturday evening reminded...
Musicologist Sultan Arshad Khan, who extensively documented the film music of the subcontinent, passed away on Wednesday morning at his residence in...
The violin sounded quite different and there were moments where it felt that some other instrument was being played as Czech violinist Pavel Sporcl...
Making the most of the presence of a large number of classical musicians in Karachi due to the All Pakistan Music Conference Karachi that began on...
Before Zia Mohyeddin, masterpieces of Urdu prose and poetry were only meant to be read or spoken. It was Mohyeddin who made Urdu literature...
The Arts Council of Pakistan might not have chosen the best day for holding a condolence reference for Zia Mohyeddin and Amjad Islam Amjad as the...
A close reading of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape by poet and literary scholar Ahmad Javaid at Off The School on Wednesday evening provided...
The Arts Council of Pakistan recently paid tribute to Indian author Javed Siddiqi who has been on a visit to Karachi from India.Siddiqui began his...
A talk on Persian poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi, also known as Maulana Rum, along with rendition of his poetry at the National Academy of...
There were only a few brief moments when the sound of guffaws could not be heard after the play, ‘100 Din Chor Ke’, had reached its climax on...
The memories of three grand literary critics of Urdu from India who passed away in a short time of around one-and-a-half years from December 2020...
Allama Iqbal, the national poet of Pakistan, was the subject of the only discussion that took place on the first day of the Annual Urdu Conference...
At every step of our life we are being watched by an invisible power — the power of digital imperialism. Those controlling the digital world know...
The aspect of time is a remarkable feature of the Subcontinent’s classical music. For almost every Raag, a certain time period of the day is fixed...
The advent of social media has helped revive the younger generations’ interest in Urdu poetry. However, the youth have been engaging with Urdu...
