Stories by Nasir Abbas Nayyar
With artificial intelligence able to churn out words instantaneously, even imitating and combining the stylistic and technical
Published 27 Sep, 2026 07:26am
The popularity of Jaun Elia’s deceptively simple verse, which has become all the rage with the youth, often obscures the depth...
Published 01 Mar, 2026 09:21am
Ghazi sahib’s fictional prose is remarkably creative, engaging and captivating.
Published 25 Nov, 2025 05:42pm
Ghazi sahib’s fictional prose is remarkably creative, engaging and captivating, allowing it to still resonate with readers.
Updated 25 Nov, 2025 05:30pm
Zehra Nigah’s latest collection of poetry — only her fifth ever — deals often with themes of home, ageing, loneliness and the...
Published 31 Aug, 2025 09:35am
Eminent critic and writer Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered a lecture at the Arts Council of Pakistan in Karachi on May 30, 2025,
Published 22 Jun, 2025 06:39am
Dr Tariq Rahman’s book on Ghalib is an exceptional scholarly work that might prompt new thinking on a few themes in classical...
Published 30 Sep, 2024 03:49pm
An English translation of a Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai novella puts an end to the general amnesia about the worth and significance
Published 04 Aug, 2024 09:11am
A new book presents a serious critical study of Mustansar Hussain Tarar’s novels
Published 25 Feb, 2024 09:32am
Asghar Nadeem Syed’s newest novel blurs fact and fiction in musing over the lost years of Gen Zia’s dictatorship
Published 06 Aug, 2023 09:00am
Commemorating Mir Taqi Mir, the undisputed master of Rekhta, in the 300th year of his birth
Updated 18 Apr, 2023 03:31pm
Amjad Islam Amjad, who passed away February 10, was, in the jargon of mushaira organisers, a ‘crowd-puller’. His immense...
Published 19 Feb, 2023 08:50am
Noted Urdu critic Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered the keynote speech at the inaugural session of the 15th International Urdu Con...
Published 01 Jan, 2023 07:44am
Gopi Chand Narang, who passed away on June 15, was a towering scholar who kept reiterating the secular, tolerant, inclusive...
Published 26 Jun, 2022 11:52am
A collection of more than 100 poems from 16 South Asian languages, translated into Urdu, is a treat for lovers of poetry
Published 05 Jun, 2022 10:47am
Harris Khalique’s latest book of poetry celebrates the lives and audaciousness of the marginalised as a way of speaking truth...
Published 16 Jan, 2022 06:59am
Mustansar Hussain Tarar’s latest works, as always, negotiate the ‘gap’ between imagined and real worlds, between what the...
Updated 26 Dec, 2021 04:30pm
Words have a cultural and political history. And the latter often involves manipulations and assertion of power...
Published 29 Aug, 2021 07:06am
Naseer Turabi, who passed away on January 10, had only two slim volumes of poetry to his name, but his...
Published 17 Jan, 2021 06:55am
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, who passed away on December 25, was a true giant of Urdu literature — a critic, a poet, a novelist,...
Published 03 Jan, 2021 07:31am
