Ahmad’s second collection of poems uses the language of silence to narrate stories of personal loss, identity and nostalgia
Dr Jameel Jalibi was an original thinker and one of the leading lights of Urdu literary criticism
As Manto interrogates both language and practices of the colonial power in many ways, his stories show that the ‘margin’ can speak to the...
She was not part of any political, social, literary or even feminist movement. There was nothing glitzier in Khalida Hussain’s life except her...
Poetry doesn’t necessarily reflect what we already know; it appears as a challenge to our usual, ordinary way of seeing things. We come across...
Celebrated largely for the depiction of feminine self in her poetry, Fahmida Riaz’s modernist-existentialist-progressive-humanist vision drew her...
Since divergence is a quintessential feature of creativity, loneliness is a kind of divergence, a sort of deviation from a normal and conformist way...
An insight into the varied literary contributions of poet, historian, philosopher and critic
Even the most skilled translator cannot be expected to faithfully grasp and transfer the elusiveness of poetry. Yet it has always been attempted...
The polarisation of our society can perhaps be explained by the way it has embraced its divergent as well as convergent thinkers and writers
