Writing

I met the author Dr. Shahid Siddiqui in the Allama Iqbal Open University when he was a lecturer in the...

Shaukat Siddiqui was a great novelist. He was the only writer of his time who wrote against oppression with full...

In literature and associated narratives, females often carry the otherness and foreignness in society. The poetry of Mascha Kaléko is...

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most important events – and certainly the last...

Today, the 10th of February 2023, marks the 36th death anniversary of Sadequain Amrohi, the legendary poet, painter and calligrapher....

Imagining the past is no mean feat. Especially if it is the remote past. Even more so if it is...

When the Prophet of Islam (peace and blessings on him) returned to Makkah at the head of a large victorious...

In the year 2017, I bought Letters to a Young Poet during travel to Lahore for work. I was not...

It was quite a surprising yet pleasant feel when I read the translation of Gurdial Singh’s novel Adh Chahnni Raat...

Recently, the 225th birth anniversary of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, the greatest of classical modern Urdu poets, was celebrated in...

Although D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) lived in the period commonly designated as modernist, he is not usually considered a typical...

Dr. Tariq Rahman, Dean at the School of Education, Beacon House National University Lahore, is a prolific writer. No wonder,...

Manto was a madman in the grip of the pen which he could not put down, which made all his...

There are books for which you invent a reaction for obvious reasons and thus they are boring and leaden, and...

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes was published in 1984. The book is hard to categorise in any one genre. Ostensibly...

Don DeLillo is one of the major writers from the USA who, through their writings, depicted the postmodern condition in...

I strongly believe that the milestone of 200 years of Urdu journalism did not get the extent of attention that...

Dur e Aziz Amna’s book succeeds on many counts, its beautiful prose, its readability and most importantly her distinct, strong...

Marie-Henri Beyle, better known as Stendhal, was a celebrated 19th-century French writer who is said to have had over a...

On Saturday December 3, a book launch was held at Tagh’eer Creative Space for ‘Wolfie’, a children’s book written by...

The story narrated here is nearly true. The names, location and the timeframe have deliberately been masked to make the...

Although an unconventional read, I was surprised at the ambitions and imaginative force depicted by Shehan Karunatilaka – the float...

When someone from the United States Embassy called me back in March 2022 and notified me that I was being...

Author Sara Naveed has written a whopping five books, with the sixth one just released a few days ago. Writing...

Author Muhammad Ali Bandial has lived an interesting and colorful life which resulted in him authoring his debut novel this...

Paris, the legendary city of light, has been celebrated in numerous books and poems. Phrases such as “we will always...