Theatre Wallay, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany staged its latest theatre production, ...

The National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) recently hosted the launch of the bilingual coffee table book, Three Tales from Gulistan-e-Saadi. The event, organised in collaboration with the Joy of ...

Edited by Shams Afif Siddiqi and Fuzail Asar Siddiqi and translated by the former, this collection gives English readers a hitherto unavailable glimpse into the city’s Urdu literature If asked to name ...

In Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times, edited and translated by Rakhshanda Jalil, we find stories from contemporary writers of Urdu fiction, on wide-ranging themes and tones, presenting a ...

There are any number of ways one can approach Rahat Ara Begum's collection of short stories, Lost Tales from a Bygone Era: An Anthology of Translation of Urdu Stories, assembled, contextualised and ...

Raja Nobhar khan Theatre Wallay, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, successfully staged its latest theatre production, "Do Dafa Ka Zikr Hai" (Twice Upon a Time), ...

Editor and translator Rakhshanda Jalil's new anthology begins with a story by one of the four pillars of the modern Urdu short story: Krishan Chander (right). (Images courtesy Rakhshanda Jalil and via ...

Contrary to the current perception that Urdu is the language of Muslims alone, reality tells a different story. Some of the greatest non-Muslim writers, like Munshi Premchand, wrote in both Hindi and ...

New Delhi: Translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil is often told she should ‘go to Pakistan.’ Her new book is an answer to that bigotry. “It hurts, but at the same time I feel this should ...