PESHAWAR: A large number of students throng the lone bookstore at Pashto Academy of University of Peshawar every day to buy different of books under various titles including poetry and fiction...
Anwar Khan Lala,76, retired from Pashto Academy told this scribe that Ghani Khan’s Kuliyat -- complete works -- had been the bestselling book since long...
SIALKOT: Poetry of Allama Iqbal has become a unification point on the border posts of Pakistan and India at Sucheetgarh at the Sialkot Working Boundary...
The Rangers of Pakistan and the Border Security Force (BSF) of India hardly see eye to eye with each other on any issue, given the rivalry and frequent tension on the border but their small posts, however, present a unique picture as the lines of two of famous poems of Iqbal have...
“My Urdu teacher would read poetry out to us...
He wrote in Punjabi and his verses would often touch upon the struggles of the Christian society living in Pakistan...
He has won prestigious awards for his work on the degradation of the environment and biodiversity in the coastal areas of Pakistan, and his articles have been translated into several languages, including Russian...
Regional language poetry moves away from traditional settings and themesKhwaaban Jay Mausam Jo Hik Geet is a slim volume containing 62 poems that were penned over a long span of nearly three decades...
“THREE things cannot be taught: generosity, poetry and a singing voice,” goes an Irish maxim...
The book, just published by Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) under its new series ‘Rahnuma kitaben’ (guide books), intends to instruct the young poets and new entrants to the field of literature in the art of poetry...
”American poet Robert Frost was not fond of translation and famously said that “poetry is what gets lost in translation...
” Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz had a slightly different view when he said, “Poetry is ‘impossible’ to translate because you have to reproduce the materiality of the signs, its physical properties...
But very rarely, especially in Pakistan, does one see a painter doing an exhibition paying tribute to Urdu poetry and exploring his subject by looking through two distinct creative lenses...
Khan has done this...
PESHAWAR: Poets, writers and intellectuals gathered here on Friday to appreciate a new poetry collection ‘Su Jawanda Mazal’ (the journey through lives) recently published and authored by a noted progressive Pashto poet Rashid Khattak...
A large number of university students, teachers and fans of progressive poetry attended the event...
Urdu writer Qurratulain Hyder noted in the preface to Tarkash (Quiver) — Akhtar’s first collection of poetry — that the young lad could have become a political activist with a leftist bent of mind, but “having seen the crude ways of the world, he decided that he would himself be a rich man”...
His interaction with Bollywood has surely taken him much beyond whatever his poetry alone could have taken him...
One thing is quite true that ghazal is still very popular among common poetry lovers and readers compared to azad nazm...
Dr Sher Zaman Seemab is a young scholar and poet from Malakand who has recently brought out his new poetry volume ‘Zama Da Shauq Liwantob’ (The madness of my desire)...
IFlying cars And salad bars Finger phones And kishmish scones Are not the 'in' things in Lahore There's more Of history to the city Look at the digitised tomb of Jehangir And silicon sheen to Anarkali's grave Look at the virtual state of the Shalamar Don't go in there, don't, be brave History is a palm device Less virtue, more viceKarachi, still youthful And unfaithful To its beloved The dogged Arabian Sea A fantasy Of arid zones and fertile...
Khadim began his poetic journey young — when he was a student in the eighth grade in 1986, he recited his first poem at a gathering of the Ali Khan Pashto Adabi Board, Hashtnagar, Charsadda...
In addition to working as a scriptwriter and broadcaster of literary, youth, current and tribal affairs — Radio Pakistan, Peshawar, recently gave him a Best Performance award — he has written several books: Lamghare [Flattery], Karketch...
And what can anybody do about the connection between flower-paste and poetry?)”Anjum’s Jannat Guest House has its material rationale...
Q: Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction, prose or poetry?A: I read everything - fiction, non-fiction, English, Urdu and Persian poetry...
I mostly manage [Persian poetry] without translations...
If you lingered on any longer, you would’ve heard the voices of even more; Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Josh Malihabadi, Jaun Elia and Habib Jalib, all greats of Urdu poetry, one by one, reciting their most famous verses...
Near the end of the session, when he offered to recite something by Ghalib, an audience member inquired whether Mr Ali would also be mimicking Assadullah Khan’s style as well – a query that prompted peals of approving...