KARACHI: To speak on the salient features of the Intikhab-i-Kalam series published by Oxford University Press (OUP) as part of its Urdu Virsa programme, renowned scholar M. Reza Kazimi discussed three ...

NEW DELHI: While Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar expressed his last desire in this couplet, his tutor Zauq could have well echoed the sentiment. Cultural Notice Board Gives No Information On The ...

TRUE to its name, Aab-i-hayat is a book that lives on, even 134 years after it appeared. First published in 1880, this masterpiece by Urdu’s legendary prose writer Muhammad Hussain Azad is, in fact, a ...

This is not a usual day. After making endless enquiries at various offices, with a range of people, for days together, one is finally able to visit the tomb of Zauq, the revered name in Urdu poetry ...