How did one of history’s greatest Urdu poets become a philatelic icon? Syed Muhammad Naqavi traces his journey from a 1952 ...
The last two decades have transformed the ecology of literary culture worldwide, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than ...
In the world of Urdu literature, countless poets have come and gone, and many more will continue to appear, but the sky of time has rarely witnessed a poet like Ghalib. Ghalib was fully aware of his ...
Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Thursday inaugurated a book shop at the National ...
Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Thursday inaugurated a book shop at the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA) Karachi in ...
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How to kill a language

No year-enders this time. I have not recovered enough from what this year inflicted on me to write dispassionately about it. But as the name promises, I am writing the next worst thing: the decline ...
The promise of technology as a saviour isn’t entirely wrong. But it will remain a myth until it serves us in the languages we ...
There are often the bloopers we come across in the media as well as in the ordinary lives we lead. Some years ago, ...
Award winning artist Saba Hasan is one of those multidisciplinary artists who is constantly wound up in the web of her own ...
Within eight months of the creation of an independent and sovereign state of Pakistan, its founder and first Governor General ...
On a winter morning in Lahore in the late 1990s, crime reporter Jamil Chishti walked into his office to do his routine work.