Editor and translator Rakhshanda Jalil's new anthology begins with a story by one of the four pillars of the modern Urdu short story: Krishan Chander (right). (Images courtesy Rakhshanda Jalil and via ...

WHEN the sun peeped out from behind the horizon on August 14, 1947, much to its surprise it was an altogether different landscape in the subcontinent, not only politically but also literarily and ...

Critics say Columeau has injected fresh life into country’s literary scene LAHORE Frenchman Julien Columeau came to Pak-istan at the age of 30 as a humanitarian worker, but a knack for languages and ...

KARACHI: Even though Rakshanda Jalil did not get her visa in time and Ali Sethi was busy gargling and doing the scales for the Faiz celebrations in the evening, the discussion on ‘Writing the World’ ...

THE strange thing about grammar is that the native speakers of a language do not need it, at least while learning it as a child. Native speakers instinctively know the rules that govern the use of ...

KARACHI: Urdu writers and critics expressed their regret at the decline of short story writing and publishing trends in Urdu literature on the last day of the 6th International Urdu Conference on ...

Letters are now a nostalgic pastime. The “art of letter writing”, we call it wistfully, mostly because we detest the brief, auto-prompt sentences we write today. Poet Agha Shahid Ali, in his poem ...

LAHORE: Frenchman Julien Columeau came to Pakistan at the age of 30 as a humanitarian worker - but a knack for languages and love for books have made him one of the country's most innovative Urdu ...