A session on 'Urdu Ghazal New Formations' was held at the 14th International Urdu Conference at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi, which was moderated by Nasira Zuberi. On this occasion, Ambreen ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) ahead of the Diamond Jubilee Independence Day celebrations has published the first volume of “A Research and Analytic Study of Urdu Ghazal in Pakistan” ...

The publications, ‘Sukhan Nishani Ishq Ki’ and ‘Rang Khabeeda Paray Hain’, represent the two most important and popular genres of Urdu literature, ‘ghazal’ and ‘nazm’, respectively. Iqtidar Javed is a ...

Pakistani musician Arooj Aftab is no stranger to the decadence of cultural heritage in musical imagination. After all, she has used Urdu ghazals and idioms frequently in her music in the past. Her ...

For the millennials, a Jagjit Singh playlist will begin with “Koi Fariyaad” from Tum Bin. And for a generation before that, it can be “Tum Itna Jo” from Arth. The two movies might be over two decades ...

Bagchi opens the book with a precise biographical introduction. A translation of Pakistani writer Intizar Hussain’s beautiful essay on Niazi is included, where Hussain notes that while the rest of ...

As the voice of Pakistan’s aching, lovelorn heart since he began his career in 1957, Mehdi Hassan was used to being stopped by fans—at airports, in the marketplace, at weddings. Years ago, he was ...

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; ...