The slow erasure of Pakistan’s cinematic memory is not merely a cultural oversight. It is a refusal to come to terms with ...

Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi organized Dr. Nasir Abbas Nayyar’s thought-provoking lecture titled “Absence of Urdu Novel ...

Hallaj’s mystical utterance to Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s revolutionary verse, South Asia’s poetic traditions have long intertwined ...

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts has just announced its 2025/2026 season, the biggest in the Chan Centre ‘s 28-year ...

And this is what makes the award of the Booker Prize last week to Banu Mushtaq so important. Her collection of short stories ...

Basharat Shameem It was in 1947 itself that Faiz Ahmad Faiz sensitized us about the coming dystopia that Pakistan was to be ...

Rekhta Foundation was recognised at the Junoon Awards 2024 for revolutionising Urdu preservation through digital innovation ...

Banu Mushtaq, a trailblazing writer, lawyer and activist from Karnataka, has become the first Kannada author to win the ...

Banu Mushtaq has a celebrated literary career, which includes six short story collections, a novel, an essay collection, and ...

The 12 short stories, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, follow the lives of ordinary women living in southern India ...

Urdu, a language that thrived across centuries in the past, spoken by millions in India, has experienced a steady yet undeniable fall in its usage over the years. The decline of Urdu in contemporary ...

A proposed multi-party delegation from India with the aim to expose Pakistan’s sustained sponsorship of terrorism before the world is likely to highlight the content of these books ...