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 […]

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, […]

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 […]