The provenance of Urdu literature produced in Pakistan in the last 75 years lies in the poetics of modern-national literature which began in response to colonial conditions of the late 19th Century ...

POSTCOLONIAL discourse is not anything new: back in 1978 with the publication of Edward Said’s book Orientalism ...

Urdu literature emanating from Pakistan has been mesmerising readers for ages. Bano Qudsia’s insightful stories about normal humans pursuing their lives, Saadat Hasan Manto’s stories that defied the ...

LITERARY trends and movements do not come and go with the flip of the calendar. Somehow we tend to gauge literary ideas and trends according to our own sense of time when they have their own natural ...

Urdu is a hybrid language that is based on the spoken languages of Northern India with a generous overlay of Arabic and Persian words. ‘Urdu’ is a Turkish word, which means a camp. When Muslims from ...

Anxious parents shortlisting the ideal career path for their maturing child, amidst growing economic uncertainty and rising unemployment in the country, hope to miraculously pinpoint the ultimate ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar, described as the oldest literary association in Qatar and established in 1959, held a symposium on classic Urdu literature, attended by enthusiasts, poets, and writers from the ...

Under the aegis of Bazm e Urdu Qatar one of the oldest Urdu institutions in Qatar the release of the annual mujalla, Tevar, ...