FEATUREDPakistan Academy of Letters’ publication galore
‘The translations are manifestly intended to enable the speakers of the major Pakistani languages (other than Urdu), to understand and appreciate Allama Iqbal’s poetry and its latent message.’ ‘Six prose<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/01/09/pakistan-academy-of-letters-publication-galore/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Jan 9, 2018
FEATUREDAn adroit translation
The book is likely to arouse curiosity and interest among the Urdu reading public in the life and work of the man who coined the moniker Pakistan Title: Sawaneh
Dec 9, 2017
FEATUREDRemembering Afzal Ahsan Randhawa: A celebrated icon of Punjabi literature
‘Afzal Ahsan Randhawa’s firm commitment to the cause of the countless but speechless multitudes found a frequent yet vocal expression in almost all of his prose and verse publications.’
Dec 2, 2017
ColumnsOf the distaff literature
Reviewing two collections of Urdu verse and a miscellany of Urdu prose writings authored by noted female writers from Faisalabad and Lahore Book 1:‘She had resolved not to
Oct 1, 2017
ColumnsZia Butt’s memoirs and short stories
A known literary figure regards these stories as a ‘mirror’ of our eventful existence at both personal and collective levels ‘The author, in an anecdotal style, wistfully recapitula
Sep 10, 2017
ColumnsOf fiction, Old and New
The two books belong to two entirely different epochs of literary lineage viz., the early modern and the post-modern converging on a cross-literary mosaic The Valley of Fear Author: Arthur Conan<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/08/20/of-fiction-old-and-new/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Aug 20, 2017
ColumnsNajma Mansoor as a prose poet and compiler
From a cursory perusal of the book, there appears to be a marked evolution in her art in the period intervening between 1990 and 2016 ‘The difficulty with prose poetry is that if it
Jul 23, 2017
ColumnsOf multi-lingual fiction
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Mar 5, 2017
Columns‘Times are changing’
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Jan 1, 2017
UncategorizedVoices, Heard and Unheard
Here is a joint review of four recently published books with diverse substance like critical insights in Urdu, poems in Urdu, a female Iranian poet’s Persian poems translated into Urdu, and a Pakist
Nov 13, 2016
ColumnsBook: Thought never dies
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Sep 11, 2016
FEATUREDA searching analysis of Kashmir dispute
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Jul 26, 2015