Published: 23 January, 2022
Source: The News on Sunday
City of dreams
Riffat Abbas’s newly translated novel is about an imaginary city without kings, suppression or wars
Riffat Abbas’s newly translated novel is about an imaginary city without kings, suppression or wars
Harris Khalique’s latest book of poetry celebrates the lives and audaciousness of the marginalized as a way of speaking truth to power. It is a rare and must-read book
Asghar Nadeem Sayyad’s narrative style can make a reader fall in love with the art of inspired storytelling all over again
Peerzada Salman’s debut explores how deeply entwined art and ordinary life are with each other
Dr Abrar Ahmad lives on in his poetry
Iftikhar Arif’s new volume of poems testifies to his command over the art of poetry
Naseer Turabi, who passed away on January 10, had only two slim volumes of poetry to his name, but his neo-classical attention to craft and to the usage of words indicate his real worth
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, who passed away on December 25, was a true giant of Urdu literature — a critic, a poet, a novelist, a short story writer, a lexicographer and a theorist
Reform of the modern Urdu canon was an ambitious project having no parallel in the history of imperialism