HOW intriguing that at a time when English, with its status as a global language, is swaying South Asian literary minds, one seasoned English fiction writer settled in London has taken a jump in the ...

Kooza is a collection of vignettes and short stories published by Oxford University Press (OUP) with the stories selected and edited by Zahra Sabri. As the foreword to the 40 written pieces explains, ...

Frenchman Julien Columeau came to Pakistan at the age of 30 as a humanitarian worker - but a knack for languages and love for books have made him one of the country's most innovative Urdu novelists.

KARACHI/ URDU LITERATURE: Urdu literature and history are integral parts of fiction writing, said speakers at the 'Fiction ke Baladtay Qalib' session on the third day of the ninth Aalmi Urdu ...

PATNA: Mohammad Absar did not use unfair means in his law examination. Nor did he leave his paper blank. Yet, Patna University has penalised him by awarding zero in a paper. His fault, according to ...

HYDERABAD : For the first time, the question paper of the Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (Eamcet) will be made available in Urdu besides English and Telugu. Speaking at the ...

As though enough harm was not done to Urdu language postPartition by removing it from the school curriculum of North India to get political mileage the proverbial last nail has been driven into its ...

KARACHI: This is with reference to Tazeen Javed’s article of May 19 titled “The art of writing an Urdu column”. Those who write in the Urdu press know how to write good columns, even if it means that ...