Literature - 3

Time has now come to promote search and enquiry, he said and added that Ashfaque Saleem had come up with the same findings in his unique book on philosophy. This indeed was the reasoning of the writer, who said certain established philosophers were not essentially philosophers but either theologians (present on the scene since ancient [...]

North Nazimabad Town enjoys the reputation of being the most literate town of the country, as out of its 700,000 population more than 90 percent are educated and compared with other towns of Karachi it is well developed. In the early Sixties when Karachi was the capital of Pakistan, North Nazimabad was initially selected for [...]

By nominating renowned Sindhi writer and intellectual Sobho Gayan Chandani for Kamal-e-Funn Award 2004, the Pakistan Academy of Letters has taken the initiative to recognise the lifetime literary achievement of a regional language writer for the first time and set an example of promoting the spirit of literary harmony between all regional languages of Pakistan. [...]

Poetry dominated the Adabi Chaupal held under the aegis of Arbab-i-Adab on Thursday as only one short story came up for discussion. The short story read out by Rahman Nishat was about a fugitive who assumed the role of a malang. The organizers of the literary sitting and the compere, poets Pervin Javed and Nasim [...]

After eating a bowl of warm papri chaat and admiring gold bracelets, Mirza said she understood why her elders often told her about how Pakistan fought to gain its independence more than half a century ago. Mirza and her mother, Neelum Mirza, said they were waiting to hear Abrar-ul-Haq, a famous Pakistani singer and crowd [...]

The book running over to 1,500 pages is a study of the history of Sindh in relation to its literature of the present and preceding years. It has been written in Urdu by Syed Mazhar Jameel, and will be translated by the Sindh Adabi Board as well as in Hindi in India by Sahitya Academy. [...]

Louise Brown, a British academic who studies the sex trade in Asia, spent seven years, off and on, living in Heera Mandi. “The Dancing Girls of Lahore” is her report, both chilling and heart-warming, on a neighborhood where all the rules seem to be changing except the ones that keep Pakistani women in a state [...]

Zala Ejaz doesn’t write poems if her father gives an idea because she thinks that she has enough ideas of her own. The class five student at the Siddeeq Public School has so far written around 50 poems out of which the National Book Foundation published 35 in February. When Zala was eight-year-old, she was [...]

Pakistan has completed the 20th volume of the world’s most comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language, officials of the Urdu Diction Board of Pakistan said here Wednesday. The Board plans to publish 22 volumes containing 300,000 words, give or take a few hundred words. The Board has modelled its flagship dictionary on the Greater Oxford [...]

The organizers of Koocha-i-Saqafat revived the long-forgotten poetic genre of ‘Char bait’ on Sunday. In some Pathan states of the subcontinent, such as Rampur, Bhopal, Tonk and Jaora, ‘Char bait’ contests were held in the past in which at least two groups recited four-line stanzas to the tune of ‘duf’ (tambourine). The road on which [...]