Stories by Rauf Parekh
IN SEPTEMBER 1803, the British forces led by Lord Lake defeated the Maratha forces and captured Delhi, ending ...
Published 29 Sep, 2026 07:59am
AKHTAR-I-SHAHANSHAHI is an Urdu book that briefly introduces, in alphabetical order, Urdu newspapers, magazines,...
Published 21 Sep, 2026 04:44am
IGNORING, and even ridiculing, Urdu poets native to regions other than North India is not unheard of. As put by...
Published 14 Sep, 2026 07:05am
LITERARY magazines are regarded as harbingers of new literary, aesthetic and linguistic trends, signalling emergence...
Published 07 Sep, 2026 04:29am
DR ATHER Farouqui is a restless soul. As secretary of Delhi’s Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu Hind (ATUH), he constantly...
Published 31 Aug, 2026 11:37am
DA’I-UL-ISLAM Syed Muhammad Ali, a scholar from Iran, is little-known in our literary circles today, but about a...
Published 24 Aug, 2026 07:03am
YASMEEN Hameed, a well-known poet and translator, is recognised as an untiring scholar, too, as she comes up with...
Published 17 Aug, 2026 04:30am
ORIENTALISM has remained a much-discussed topic ever since Edwards Said’s book Orientalism (1978) made a splash ...
Published 10 Aug, 2026 06:34am
MUSHFIQ Khwaja (1935-2005) was one of those scholars who never flinched under any pressure and expressed their ...
Updated 27 Jul, 2026 08:46am
THE Dictionary of National Biography, popularly known as the DNB, is a monumental work that features, in over 60...
Published 20 Jul, 2026 06:49am
URDU poetry is weathering a new trend in India: salacious thoughts expressed in risqué language, not only trampling...
Published 13 Jul, 2026 06:58am
WHEN an audit team raised a strange objection in its annual audit report on the working of Lahore’s...
Published 06 Jul, 2026 07:00am
SHAMSUR Rahman Farooqi in his novel Kai Chaand Thai Sar-i-Aasmaan had described Saleem Jafer’s life, but it lacked...
Published 29 Jun, 2026 08:32am
SHANUL Haq Haqqee (1917-2005), one of the foremost lexicographers of Urdu, played a pioneering role in laying down...
Published 22 Jun, 2026 07:03am
RASHEED Hasan Khan (1925-2006) was one of the most respected — and most feared — scholars of Urdu. Known for his...
Published 15 Jun, 2026 05:58am
WILLIAM Caxton established the first printing press in England and printed the first book in 1473, thereby ...
Published 08 Jun, 2026 06:54am
‘ADAB Aur Zindagi’, or literature and life, an article by Akhter Husain Raipuri published in 1935, was one of ...
Published 01 Jun, 2026 07:29am
LAHORE’S Bazm-i-Iqbal — a literary organisation working under the aegis of the Punjab government for the...
Published 25 May, 2026 07:05am
NEELA Gumbad, or the blue dome, is a monument near Lahore’s famous Anarkali Bazaar. The 17th-century structure is...
Published 18 May, 2026 07:53am
DESPITE some controversies, Saleem Ahmed (1927-1983) is ranked among prominent and influential critics of Urdu. When...
Published 11 May, 2026 07:31am
