As theories of literary criticism in Urdu are being maligned and violently discarded, here’s an attempt to unravel the reasons
Colonial alienation is a product of the overall process of colonising the society and the mind -- it is experienced at linguistic, cultural,...
Human reality, being complex and layered, can only be conceived imaginatively and not through analytical methods of history
Asghar Nadeem Syed’s debut collection of stories hunts for answers to big questions posed by the political, social, cultural and literary history...
An unorthodox exile, Saqi Farooqi wrote diverse nazms, ghazals and critical essays of huge merit
A book and the way we read it can change our worldview and nurture new emotions
Literature and all creative arts must possess a kind of magical power that could metamorphose the cry of resistance into a ‘whimper’ without...
Sir Syed’s notion of modernity was paradoxical and complicated because it was characterised by his subservience to authority
Reaching Nisf Jahan with limited time and unlimited wishes, setting aside all worries of this or that world, fully living in those moments
Translation is not simply an act of transferring or communicating a meaning of a text from one language into another one; it is far more than that
