The former chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University Firoz Bakht Ahmed has written to Union education minister ...

MUST a poet know ilm-i-arooz or prosody? Some poets say no and argue that prosodic metres teach us to measure the poetic rhythms and patterns of sounds as they occur in a poetic line, but prosodic ...

Edited by Rakhshanda Jalil, the anthology contains 16 stories by non-Muslim writers, from the early decades of the 20th ...

With the emergence of communal fascism in the country, academic freedom has become virtually absent. Fighting for the freedom ...

Anwar Jamal is a veteran poet, critic, and educationist from Multan. His latest book ‘Dhoop Ki Cha’oN’ (The Sun Shade), is a ...

In the world of Urdu literature, countless poets have come and gone, and many more will continue to appear, but the sky of time has rarely witnessed a poet like Ghalib. Ghalib was fully aware of his ...

Warning: This post contains language readers may find disturbing. The Justice Department now says a handwritten letter it released Tuesday that was signed by “J. Epstein” and addressed to convicted ...

PostNord’s decision to end service on 30 December comes after fear over ‘increasing digitalisation’ of Danish society The Danish postal service will deliver its last letter on 30 December, ending a ...

Children (and adults) can write letters to Santa Claus through the U.S. Postal Service’s Operation Santa program, which allows others to fulfill their wish lists. Idaho resident Kelly Hardy left a job ...

The last two decades have transformed the ecology of literary culture worldwide, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in the geographically dispersed world of Urdu letters. Social media, with ...

Source: Caroline Leavitt It started young for me. I didn’t really have anyone to talk with. My father was a sulky, silent brute and I couldn’t risk getting yelled at or hit by speaking up. My mother ...