The provenance of Urdu literature produced in Pakistan in the last 75 years lies in the poetics of modern-national literature which began in response to colonial conditions of the late 19th Century ...

In this week’s Urdunama, the spotlight falls on a deceptively simple word: Soch, the private lens through which we view the world, and often, the quiet architect of our joy, pain, and self-mythology.

Urdu literature is being produced as rapidly as it was produced in the past, however, today it suffers from lack of appreciation, writer and dramatist Asghar Nadeem Syed said as part of a panel titled ...

Even as she won the Uttar Pradesh Sahitya Akademi Award and Soviet Land Nehru Award later in her life, she is not widely ...

Dhoop Chhaon”and “Mein Tanhayee Mein Sochta Hoon”. Author : Dr. Jitendra Udhampuri Publisher : Highbrow Publications, Bari ...

While a socio-cultural decay engulfs Pakistan, the current state of Urdu literature is indeed a cause for general concern. Right after independence, Pakistan had a sizable crop of laureates endowed ...

Dr Nuzhat Abbasi is one of Pakistan’s best-known contemporary women poet, who also has a most natural prowess and elegance with which she brings verse to life. A poet as well as a social curator and ...

After reading some interesting analyses of the dominance of the Hindi-belt in India, I thought about my work on culture, language, and politics, specifically the decay of Urdu litearure in ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar, described as the oldest literary association in Qatar and established in 1959, held a symposium on classic Urdu literature, attended by enthusiasts, poets, and writers from the ...