WHEN the sun peeped out from behind the horizon on August 14, 1947, much to its surprise it was an altogether different landscape in the subcontinent, not only politically but also literarily and ...

Abdul Ghaffar inspects the line of Urdu I have written and then bursts into laughter. “To me, people like you who know how to read and write Urdu in normal script are padhe hue (literate). Not padhe ...

Letters are now a nostalgic pastime. The “art of letter writing”, we call it wistfully, mostly because we detest the brief, auto-prompt sentences we write today. Poet Agha Shahid Ali, in his poem ...

Critics say Columeau has injected fresh life into country’s literary scene LAHORE Frenchman Julien Columeau came to Pak-istan at the age of 30 as a humanitarian worker, but a knack for languages and ...

India is a country whose wonderful diversity stems from the richness of its past. That includes the Urdu script. Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French ...