It so happened that I was reading the very readable WW2 memoir of Major Ishaq Muhammad on the 6th of...

Maulana Bhashani, who was born 141 years ago on December 12 yesterday, was the most important leader of that Pakistan...

The details of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s literary activities would merit an entire book. For fear of length, an extremely brief discussion...

It was great to read a few days ago that the Lahore Arts Council is planning to celebrate the 2019...

Translator’s note: Today marks the 70th anniversary of the untimely assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of...

October this year is special for those in the Indian Subcontinent who profess to be on the Left and have...

Translator’s Introduction: September 30 earlier this week was International Translation Day while this week is also being celebrated as Banned...

Translator’s Introduction: September 30 earlier this week was International Translation Day while this week is also being celebrated as Banned...

‘Majrooh, likh rahe hain vo ahl-e-vafaa ke naam Hum bhi khade hue hain gunahgaar ki tarah (Majrooh, the names of...

Widely considered to be the father of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun – born 140 years ago today – was...

At moments when those who claim to lead the people have become determined to sell the people to such anti-people...

The full Urdu text of Ishrat Afreen’s moving new poem Azadaran-e-Hussain Ke Naam (To the Mourners of Hussain) is as...

Hamen khabar hai ke hum hain charagh-e-akhir-e-shab Hamare baad andhera nahi ujala hai (We know that we are the lamp...

MANASHINI M. SPEAKS TO RAZA NAEEM

SKETCH BY NEELUM AHMAD BASHEER – TRANSLATED FROM THE URDU BY RAZA NAEEM

SKETCH BY NEELUM AHMAD BASHEER – TRANSLATED FROM THE URDU BY RAZA NAEEM

Robert Owen (1771 – 1858), a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement, was born in Wales 250 years...

RAZA NAEEM TRANSLATES THE STORY THAT MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR WROTE AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ZIA ERA, PRISON BRUTALITY AND...

RAZA NAEEM TRANSLATES THE STORY THAT MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR WROTE AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ZIA ERA, PRISON BRUTALITY AND...

RAZA NAEEM TRANSLATES THE STORY THAT MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR WROTE AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ZIA ERA, PRISON BRUTALITY AND...

RAZA NAEEM TRANSLATES THE STORY THAT MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR WROTE AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ZIA ERA, PRISON BRUTALITY AND...

I.A. Rehman, Pakistan’s renowned journalist and human rights icon passed away earlier this month on April 12 at the age...

Stop all the clocks ... let the mourners come. (WH Auden) April 10 earlier this month marked the birth centenary...

Sahir Ludhianvi made his place among Urdu Progressive poets with Taj Mahal, where for the first time the past was...

Before he was Sahir Ludhianvi, Abdul Hai (1921-80) was born in a family of Punjabi landowners a hundred years ago...

ROSA LUXEMBURG WAS THE PRESCIENT SOCIALIST WHO FORESAW THE BARBARIANISM OF THE PRESENT, WRITES RAZA NAEEM