The English-speaking world is biased against the non-native speakers of English and there is too much racialism and these biases are enshrined in the English language. There should be a conscious ...

Khwaja specializes in the areas of Victorian, romantic literature and postcolonial literature and also teaches courses in creative writing. He has published critical articles on English, Postcolonial, ...

in the late 1960’s. Izhar-ul-Haq was deeply moved by Aftab Ahmad Shah’s wondrous intelligence, his mercurial temperament, and his imperviousness to worldliness. He proceeds to review the latter’s ...

If you want to make high-brow small talk at one of President Barack Obama’s cocktail parties, don’t bother brushing up your Shakespeare. Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in ...

Modern Urdu verse has successfully crafted its own distinct identity as a genre without breaking away from past traditions. Renowned poet, Aftab Iqbal Shamim, said this on Monday at a literary ...

Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

Ishrat Afreen is one of the five most influential writers of the feminist movement in Urdu literature and is counted amongst the most renowned poets in Pakistan. She has won numerous awards, and her ...