Stories by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
This was supposed to be a continuation of my previous column on Naqlain Aur Hikayatain [Anecdotes, Tales and...
Published 20 Sep, 2026 05:49am
A greater deal of learning, intellectual vigour and stamina goes into editing classical texts than a reader would...
Published 23 Aug, 2026 07:09am
A qissa, with all its multifarious subjects, and the range of narrative voices and devices it employs to tell stories, does
Published 19 Jul, 2026 07:03am
In world literature, Tilism-i-Hoshruba (1883-1897), stands as an oddity: a fantasy that starts in medias res, a ...
Published 21 Jun, 2026 07:10am
The algorithm that through various combinations of variety and chance puts together the universe of books one finds...
Published 17 May, 2026 08:09am
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Persian language poets in Iran and India established a parallel universe of...
Published 19 Apr, 2026 11:54am
Every Sunday, he would sit with the matrimonial advertisements in daily Jang, and mark potential candidates
Published 15 Mar, 2026 07:17am
There are many ways to go about writing one’s first novel, and here I would like to share how I went about writing...
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:21am
In the contemporary world of letters, infiltrated by brand and persona marketing, being a master of more than one...
Published 11 Jan, 2026 10:50am
Anthologists and editors rarely receive the recognition they deserve in the literary world, considering how...
Published 14 Dec, 2025 05:35am
During one of my story-building workshops in a public school in Larkana, in which I was tasked to help Grade 9 and 10 girls write
Published 09 Nov, 2025 08:20am
Just like society needs structure and laws to keep diverse groups of people together, the Book Club too, must have a supervising
Updated 12 Oct, 2025 11:31am
One can presume that Samuel Johnson, as an author and the compiler of a dictionary, no less, understood the meaning...
Published 07 Sep, 2025 09:28am
If someone were to ask me to name the drollest qissa in Urdu literature, I would tell them it is the Qissa...
Published 06 Jul, 2025 08:42am
In this column, we return to the structure of Qissa Chhabili Bhattiyari [Chhabili the Innkeeper] discussed earlier, to study how
Published 06 Jun, 2025 07:32pm
Regarding the shelves in a bookshop the other day, where some of my favourite writers were displayed, I recalled
Published 04 May, 2025 07:15am
The qissa is a marvellous genre that encompasses every imaginable form of storytelling, from adventures to travelogues to healing
Published 06 Apr, 2025 10:46am
A kind of poetic justice was meted out to me some years later. My school had been recently nationalised and, while a number of
Published 02 Mar, 2025 08:03am
Sometimes the lack of stimulation is just what the mind needs to develop in a healthy way. I recently thought about...
Published 02 Feb, 2025 09:03am
Professor Abdur Rasheed, who retired as Urdu professor from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, is one of Urdu...
Published 29 Dec, 2024 08:56am
