New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) For over a decade now, after 'fulfilling (his) career responsibilities' – his company is one of the worlds largest producers of PET films with manufacturing plants in India, ...

NASIR Abbas Nayyar has captured the fancy of Urdu lovers in recent times with his unique approach to linguistics and his critique of literary output through the prism of historical changes over the ...

The venerable 89-year-old literary theorist on his early memories of growing up in Balochistan, arriving in Delhi after Partition, on the poetry of Ghalib and Mir, and on his lifelong association with ...

TASHKENT: In the middle of Central Asia, a professor has studied and taught Urdu for over half a century. Professor Dr Tash Mirza is as passionate about the language now as he was in 1961, when he ...

Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s critical work on Urdu progressives and other writers is well-recognised as are her translations from Urdu. In her latest book, Love in the ...

How was the experience of translating nazms as opposed to ghazals? Was there a difference in the theory or praxis of the translation? Please share particular challenges with the readers. 485pp, ₹599; ...

ISLAMABAD: British High Commissioner to Pakistan Dr Christian Turner on Tuesday spoke in Urdu to express his love for Pakistani cities and foods. The UK high commissioner was speaking to Geo News ...

L: New NYRB edition of "Basti" by Intizar Husain; R: Husain at the Karachi Literature Festival on February 5, 2011. (Karachi Literature Festival/Flickr) No summary of Basti can do justice to its ...

Bangladesh manager MA Latif has stunned the members of the national cricket team and the travelling journalists by giving a television interview in Urdu. On Sunday evening, most of the Pakistani ...