Gurdial Singh’s Work Finds A Devoted New Translator Into Urdu
It was quite a surprising yet pleasant feel when I read the translation of Gurdial Singh’s novel Adh Chahnni Raat ...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Tag: translation
New Book Addresses Breast Cancer, Love And Loss
On November 19, Lightstone Publishers released a new book, From My Wounded Heart With Love by Anja Caspary, a translation ...
Intimations Of Ghalib: Translations That Are Not Hindered By The Literal
Many moons ago, I received Intimations of Ghalib, a slim volume of translations of the timeless verse by the great ...
Reading Dr. Naazir Mahmood’s Open Letter To His Father Rashad Mahmood On His 90th Birthday
Translator’s Note: Muhammad Rashad Mahmood, currently Pakistan’s senior-most communist, was born 90 years ago today on July 9, 1932 in ...
The World Of The Urdu Sonnet
It is rare to come across a writer who is so devoted to the written word that she cares far ...
Translating The Ghazal Of Ghazals: Amir Khusrau’s ‘Zihaal e Miskeen’
Poetry often bypasses the conventions of connotation, flexes the rigidity of common contextual structures and eventually reinvigorates language itself by ...
‘There’s Too Much Patronage-Related Hierarchy In Pakistan’
Ideas and Futures is an e-journal that focuses on "re-imagining our societies beyond the pandemic". The journal, edited by Sadia ...
The Seer Of China: Reading Lu Xun In Urdu, In The Centenary Year Of The CPC
Widely considered to be the father of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun – born 140 years ago today – was ...
Deciphering Ghalib For A New Age
Anjum Altaf is a respected Pakistani academic who has delved deep into the poetry of the 19th-century Urdu poet Asadullah ...
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‘Jail Bharo’: ‘Imran Wants Party Workers Behind Bars, Not Himself’
Imran Khan never said that he himself wanted...
Imran New Yorker | Maryam Demands Imran Ouster | Jail Bharo | Punjab, KP Elections
Imran New Yorker | Maryam Demands Imran Ouster...