The first session of the second day of the 14th International Urdu Conference held at the Karachi Arts Council of Pakistan on the "Contemporary Status of Urdu Novel" The session was presided over by ...

After half a century of its publication, Abdullah Hussain’s novel Udaas Naslain still attracts the attention of critics and readers alike. This novel, along with Quratulain Haider’s novel Aag Ka Darya ...

KARACHI: The fourth day of the International Urdu Conference began with ‘A Look at Urdu Fiction’. The session was chaired by Asad Muhammad Khan, Hasan Manzar, Masood Ashar, Qazi Afzal Hussain, Zahida ...

Writing and publishing of books in Urdu in India is largely restricted to religion and literature. But in Pakistan the canvas of the language is rather large, going by the collection of tomes at the ...

Bilingualism, in many cases even multilingualism, being a special quality of most Indians, it comes as no surprise that many scholars working in various English Departments of Indian universities and ...

POSTCOLONIAL discourse is not anything new: back in 1978 with the publication of Edward Said’s book Orientalism ...

The world will soon be celebrating reading and books. The Urdu-Speaking Union (USU) is seizing the opportunity to launch its first book fair in Mauritius. This sale-exhibition has already started and ...

After we arrived in upstate New York in the fall of 2017 as cultural exchange visitors, we kept thinking about how to introduce the people here to some aspects of Pakistani culture. We kept bouncing ...

Till the late 1990s, there were more than 100 Urdu publishers in Delhi, most based in the walled city, bringing out hundreds of titles every year – fiction, non-fiction, biographies and children’s ...