The two-day ninth edition of the Faisalabad Literary Festival celebrated seventy-five years of Pakistani literature and arts
Masood Ashar’s work will be remembered for years
The void left by Shamim Hanfi is colossal, the loss deep
Kazi Javed’s demise comes as a huge loss to Urdu literature
Mian Raza Rabbani explores the precarious conditions surrounding art and literature in our society
Nature is generous as it takes little and returns much. Borrowed from nature, poetic images evince jamal or an inimitable exalted beauty
Malik explores the underlying allusion to Islam in Faiz’s popular poetry and how the idea of exclusivity of Pakistani culture still exists
A look into the tradition of marsia and how it became an integral part of modern Urdu poetry
A study of two stories on Kashmir written by Manto, depicting how in Pakistan and India the notion of a nation is so deeply embedded in religion
A look at how literature guards its imaginative realm while encountering historical and social consciousness