Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

Purani Dilli to Ayodhya, Fouzia Dastango is reimagining Hindu epics to Meena Kumari’s story in Urdu. Crowds love it.

Famed poets and intellectuals Iqtidar Javed and Prof. Dr. Sh. Muhammad Iqbal have lately brought out their aforesaid verse collections (‘Luhu Lal Ghari: Marsiye’ and ‘Bay Baal-o-Par’) on spiritual and ...

The Missing Prayer is a tell-tale rhythmic recital of the losses, the voids, the gaps and the simplest of the tiny things ...

The author with Mr Abbas Husain and Mr Wasif Rizvi.Sumera Naqvi has extensive experience in media and communications, with ...

Nagpur: In the lead-up to the much-anticipated Nagpur Book Festival set to be held from November 22 to 30 at Reshimbagh ...

Meticulously researched, politically astute and very juicy, this is a contemporary retelling of a case that rocked Pakistan ...

Not toys, I would buy literature books out of my pocket money”•“Inspired by Somnath Sadhu, wanted to be like him” ...

Renu Khanna spends her time knitting, playing board games and reading. Often she opens her little poetry book, in which she ...

Unlike other famous courtesans of Hindi cinema and literature, Umrao Jan’s story has been revisited time and again over the ...

People often say Karachi is too big, too crowded, too messy — and they’re not wrong. With 20 million people and ...

Discovering open mic poetry About fifteen years ago, I read a short poem in public at an event hosted by Mahendra Kutare, ...