Javed Akhtar talks with Subhash K Jha about his father Jaan Nisar Akhtar, noted poet and lyricist for Hindi films on his ...

The Dastangoi Collective returns to the city for a four-day festival that celebrates their journey towards reinventing the ...

A one-day national seminar titled “The Linguistic Relationship Between Unani Medicine and Urdu” was organized by the All ...

ONE of Urdu criticism’s unwritten but time-honoured understandings is to keep on writing on life and works of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (Dec 27, 1797 - Feb 15, 1869), one of the greatest and most ...

The first book in Arabic about the life and poetry of the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib, titled Ghalib: A’zam Shu’ara’il-Hind ...

Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets ...

The 16th Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) concluded on Sunday with a call to amplify "narratives from the soil," by ...

More than 200 literary luminaries from the country and across the Pakistani diaspora will take part in the 16th edition of ...

Urdu poetry is well renowned for its rich past, enormous beauty, and complexity in expressions. For those willing to start to ...

Coming from a lineage of writers, Javed Akhtar—son of renowned Urdu poet and lyricist Jan Nisar Akhtar—released his first poetry ... book], I explain my understanding of them and how they are relevant ...