The author edits and publishes Aaj, an Urdu quarterly journal, from Karachi and runs a small publishing house and bookshop. He translates and occasionally writes for English and Urdu publications.
An interesting subplot that tells a lot about the durbari politics of the time
Najm Hosain Syed, in his essay, points out the role of the two parties to this intrigue in the durbar of Kekobad
Najm Hosain Syed traces the trajectory of the tale of Amir Hamza’s adventures
Najm Hosain Syed’s detailed essay on the Punjabi version of Dastan-e Amir Hamza tries to see things in their historical and anthropological...
In his lesser-known novel ‘Ayama’, Nazir Ahmad severely criticises the institution of Maulviyat
Far from being a vague idea that accidentally became a nation-state, Pakistan was popularly imagined as a New Medina
The attitude of denigrating the sources of a major part of Urdu vocabulary has rendered us incapable of figuring out our actual historical...
A cliché insists that we continue to look at and react to new, unfamiliar things and events in the same old ‘time-honoured’ way
Our writers have, collectively, failed to challenge what has now developed into our national narrative, and in turn, have been reduced to an...
Cultural beliefs and practices that seem to survive the course of time and produce a kind of ambivalence, if not outright opposition, with regard to...
