By Bina Shah In researching my previous column on the work of Elena Ferrante, I read how certain critics were...
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By Sarah Humayun I have seen lines from Faiz’s poem Nisar main teri galiyon ke quoted to give voice to the...
Until this week, I thought that at least we could be consoled by fiction. That we still had the borderless...
By Prathap Suthan Arranging words one after the other doesn’t make you a writer. And putting them coherently in lines...
Indian literature, like India, is a combo. There are many Indian literatures. The Sahitya Akademi has 24 languages listed for...
Language cannot merely be defined as a tool to convey meaning as part of human communication. Its significance as transferor...
The literary community is justifiably divided about Bob Dylan winning the 2016 Nobel Prize of Literature for ‘having created new...
I was invited in February 2013 to the Karachi literature festival with my book on India’s popular religion and syncretistic...
“Mein ne Urdu apni maan ke doodh ke sath pi hei!” (I have consumed my mother tongue, Urdu with her breastfeeding...
When I was promoted to the rank of professor, the library at the university where I was then employed asked...
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