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Posted on March 17, 2010
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Owais Mughal
A friend of mine had once jokingly told me that
Poetry should be done in no other language than Urdu and news should be reported in no other language than English.
That comment was for lighter moments only but one can see such a stark contrast between Pakistan’s standard of Urdu and English press that at [...]

The Annual of Urdu Studies: An Academic Journal Struggles to Survive

Posted on March 10, 2010
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Adil Najam
Even when print publications were not under the type of pressures that they are today (because of internet based publishing), academic journals have always been a rather difficult enterprise to sustain. They survive mostly to the extent that libraries are willing and able to pay the high library subscriptions. Therefore an academic journal, produced [...]

kisi ne mulk, kisi ne mushaaira loota

Posted on February 10, 2010
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Owais Mughal
aa gayee! chaa gayee ! (came, saw and conquered). I recently came across poet Khalid Irfan’s latest book titled ‘No Problem’ and thought of Julius Ceaser’s veni, vidi, vici phrase. There are very few books that I have finished in one sitting and No Problem comes very close to it. I read it [...]

1971: Hum kay thehray ajnabi…

Posted on December 16, 2009
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Adil Najam
As the fourth part of our series on the events of 1971, we are reposting this post which was first published at ATP on December 16, 2006. We are reposting it with all the original comments since they, as a whole, are very much part of the conversation we all need to have with [...]

Majeed Amjad: The Poet Less Remembered

Posted on December 13, 2009
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Fawad
In the post-Iqbal era of Urdu poetry there are few greater poets than Majeed Amjad (this is a link to a short bio of him in Wikipedia that I wrote and I would love readers familiar with his work to add to it).
Yet, he may also be amongst the most under-recognized and under-appreciated of our [...]

The Myna of Peacock Garden: Urdu Short Stories

Posted on October 22, 2009
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Raza Rumi
As I hold the recently published “The Oxford Book of Urdu Short Stories” in my hands, I cannot help bemoan the fact that Urdu literature has been almost invisible from the arena of global literature. Admittedly, translation is difficult; the tediousness of translation daunts many a brave heart. Having said that, there have been [...]

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