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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Urdu poetry has always lived through the human voice. Its power lies not just in what is said, but in how it sounds ...

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 ...

LITERARY trends and movements do not come and go with the flip of the calendar. Somehow we tend to gauge literary ideas and trends according to our own sense of time when they have their own natural ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a perception that not many young literature buffs in this day and age attach due importance to classical Urdu poetry. They'd know their Jaun Elias and Munir Niazis, but wouldn't be ...