How the English department of Aligarh Muslim University nurtured contemporary Urdu literature

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

· Oct 09, 2022 · 12:30 pm

This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors

Prerna Vij

· Sep 05, 2021 · 12:30 pm

How the pandemic is depriving lovers of Urdu literature of their environment for enjoyment

Mahtab Alam

· Jul 14, 2020 · 08:30 am

Goodbye Asif Farrukhi (1959-2020): Writer, translator, editor, and lover of fine literature

Saif Mahmood

· Jun 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Mirza Athar Baig’s ‘Hassan’s State of Affairs’ underlines the art and challenges of translation

Irfan Aslam, Dawn.com

· Apr 25, 2020 · 12:30 pm

This novel is a dark comedy in the terrifying times of Zia-ul-Haq's rule in Pakistan

Intizar Husain

· Nov 22, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Qurratulain Hyder was modern and experimental before most other Indian writers walked on that road

Fatima Rizvi, Sahapedia

· Aug 18, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Cosmopolitan Dreams’: A vital book charts Urdu’s journey from newsprint to novel

Asif Farrukhi

· Apr 18, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Can men write convincingly about women in fiction? This collection of Urdu stories shows how

Ipshita Nath

· Feb 02, 2019 · 12:30 pm

The adventures of a Lucknowi flaneur should be required reading in Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh

Malini Nair

· Feb 07, 2018 · 11:30 am

‘What lies beyond the fog?’ A variety never seen before in a collection of Urdu stories

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Nov 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

This is the book that lovers of Urdu literature needed, to understand its history

Rana Safvi

· Sep 09, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘The Pose’: Anwer Khan’s short story is one of the 25 greatest in Urdu, says an anthologist

Anwer Khan

· Aug 27, 2017 · 08:30 am

Born on India’s future Independence Day, Ismat Chughtai wrote of the world she saw, not aspired to

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Aug 15, 2017 · 08:30 am

Naiyer Masud (1936-2017): The great Urdu short story writer who cultivated artistic obscurity

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Jul 26, 2017 · 08:30 am

Away from clichéd pop imagination, Urdu is reclaiming its space (sometimes via other languages)

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Feb 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

Urdu poet Bekal Utsahi embodied the true (and endangered) Ganga-Jamni culture of India

Harish Trivedi

· Dec 18, 2016 · 07:00 am

A Delhi artist is trying to popularise Urdu by putting Faiz and Chughtai on T-shirts

Shweta D'Souza

· Sep 28, 2016 · 11:30 am