The National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) recently hosted the launch of the bilingual coffee table book, Three Tales from Gulistan-e-Saadi. The event, organised in collaboration with the Joy of ...

A few weeks ago, in a class on Urdu poetry in translation, I was asked a disconcerting question about the status of Urdu as a language. In light of the frequent controversies generated around the ...

A bilingual book, Three Stories From Gulistan-e-Saadi, for children and adults will be launched today (Sunday) by Joy of Urdu — a volunteer-run, bilingual organisation working to promote Urdu language ...

At a London gathering a few nights ago, I heard a fellow-Karachiite complain: “There are so many books for children in English, but when I tried to find similar stories in Urdu for my daughter, there ...

Editor and translator Rakhshanda Jalil's new anthology begins with a story by one of the four pillars of the modern Urdu short story: Krishan Chander (right). (Images courtesy Rakhshanda Jalil and via ...

If someone thinks Urdu short stories are a thing of the past when writers such as Manto, Bedi, Krishan Chandar and Ismat Chughtai ruled supreme, they are mistaken. “Just in the past one year, 102 ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

"The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told", compiled and translated by Muhammad Umar Memon, features 25 of the finest Urdu short stories. NEW DELHI: It is good news for Urdu literature aficionados, as 25 ...

An extract from the story Voices, in The Harper Collins Book of Urdu Short Stories, edited by Muhammad Umar Memon (Harper Collins, 2005) HT Image 'I want to keep dogs.' 'What for?' the woman's voice ...

Sayed Nizamuddin, an adept bookseller is quick to offer any book on demand to his customer from the lakhs of latest books on business, ... HYDERABAD: Sayed Nizamuddin, an adept bookseller is quick to ...

To tell and listen to tales seems to have been a universal desire through millennia. Folk literatures found in the languages of the world prove that in every era and in every region storytelling has ...