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

He told the audience it was in 1862 that the first Urdu novel Khat-i-Taqdeer by Maulvi Karimuddin was published (although some think it was Miratul Uroos). From that time onwards, 3,500 novels by ...

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

Deepa Bhasthi on translating Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp, which won the 2025 International Booker Prize ...

Amborish Roychoudhury talks to ‘Scroll’ about achieving a balance between the acclaimed filmmaker’s life and work.

When I started working on translations a long time ago, one of my goals was to bring rural India into the fold.’ ...

The list, published as part of a “summer guide” insert in the Chicago Sun-Times on May 18 and the Philadelphia Inquirer on May 15, included 15 recommended novels, “new and old,” that ...

The book carries a thought-provoking foreword by Rao Manzar Hayat, an ex-bureaucrat and a leading Urdu columnist, who eulogises Faiq’s qualities of head and heart in no uncertain terms.

Dubbed 'Z literature', the action-packed novels are being branded the Kremlin's latest weapon in a growing propaganda war as they lure vulnerable young readers into enlistment and glorify death on ...