Bilal Ahmed is a journalist working at The News's Karachi Desk. He occasionally covers culture and art.
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...
A major reason for the ever-growing fame and readership of Jaun Elia is that no Urdu poet other than him was able to present in their verses various...
