Tag: Poetry

In the foothills of the beautiful mountains of Swat, there is a crowd of people gathered around a 20-year old ...

You may have read Faiz Ahmed Faiz's poem “Hum Dekhenge" (We Will See) in college or at a gathering. Perhaps ...

Speaking in Cambridge University in 1880, a high official of the British Raj named Sir John Strachey said  “This is the ...

Literati and poetry aficionados across the country will commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of an iconic poet of Sindhi and ...

This ghazal, by the Urdu poet Majrooh Sulanpuri, is perhaps the greatest revolutionary poem ever written anywhere in the world. ...

Globally renowned Pakistani orator and presenter Zia Mohyeddin breathed his last today (Monday) in Karachi. He was 91 years old. ...

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood,” said Friedrich Nietzsche. Jaun Elia’s case is ...

Yet another melodious voice has been discovered in Sindh – though less famous but it has all the ability to ...

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

A mindful reader, prior to reading the next paragraphs, might ask to summarise William Jones’ profile before his voyage to ...

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

“Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua Ban Ke Tamanna Meri, Zindagi Sham’a Ki Surat Ho Khudaya Meri”  This poem by Allama ...

Nearly two centuries have passed since John Keats, one of the most celebrated lyrical poets of English literature, died of ...

When I was the Chief Justice of Madras High Court ( 2004-2005 ) a young Tamilian lady lawyer named Maithili ...

On November 19, Lightstone Publishers released a new book, From My Wounded Heart With Love by Anja Caspary, a translation ...

Sylvia Plath questioned and wrote the most beautiful poetry, writer Iffat Navaid wrote her biography marveling on her husband's body-mind ...

Oh Mullah, our hair locks turn into Flags You can’t hide yourselves behind the hijab of your beards We’ve revolted ...

Many moons ago, I received Intimations of Ghalib, a slim volume of translations of the timeless verse by the great ...

Introduction Iss waqt yun lagta hai ke kuchh bhi nahi hai, mehtaab na sooraj, na andhera na sawera are some ...

The whole 19th century and the first half of the 20th century were characterised by the battle of ideas raging ...

Gulzar. The name needs no introduction to any lover of Urdu or Hindi poetry -- or films. Audiences across North ...

Mian Jo Goth is a historic village in the Shikarpur district which is famous for the shrine of eminent nineteenth-century ...

Migrants brings with them their own traditions and what we grow up with remains with us through our lives. Food ...

In Lahore, the city of saints, one of the most revered Sufi-poets is Shah Hussain, whose short poems in the ...

On Thursday, the CSBE released the updated curriculum for the 2022-2023 academic year, which contained several unusual deductions. Most notably, ...

What the nations of the world do in their daily lives is called culture. Culture has two types, material and ...