“THIS is not a novel to be thrown aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force,” wrote Dorothy Parker, the famous American humorist, poet and critic, in one of her book reviews. We may not have ...

KARACHI: Urdu poetry has often been accused of being too limited and narrowly focussed on a few themes such as love and beauty of the sweetheart. Urdu poetry, especially written by poets of classical ...

In the latter half of the 19th century, a movement to replace Urdu by so-called Hindi arose with the sole emphasis on replacing the Persian nastaliq script by Nagari. Therefore, institutions like ...