Kaun Hai Yeh Gustakh – Play on Manto at Alhamra Theatre
Kaun Hai Yeh Gustakh – Play on Manto at Alhamra Theatre In December 2012, Alhmara celebrated the 100-year birth anniversary of Saadat Hasan Manto. One...
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An Interview with TheSufi.com founder
An Interview with TheSufi.com founder Waleed founded the first website on Sufism and Sufi Music in 2002 at Institute of Business Admiration [IBA] in Pakistan. TheSufi.com is...
Crème de la crème of Pakistan & India: A Snapshot of few Notable Ravians
Ravi Magazine banner showing Famous Old Ravians, GCU Lahore’s Notable Alumni If we have to name one South Asian academic institution, whose alumni influenced its history, politics,...
Conversation with Mukul Kesavan – R. Ansari
Mukul Kesavan is the author of Looking Through Glass (Farrar, Straus, Giroux: New York, 1994) and is working on his second novel (a...
Kya Ghoray par Zulm Ho Raha Hai? Urdu Afsana by Mirza Athar Baig
Kya Ghoray par Zulm Ho Raha Hai? Article by Mirza Athar Baig
Pyare Abbi Jaan: Eulogy to Muzzafar Ali Syed
Pyare Abbi Jaan: Eulogy to Muzzafar Ali Syed by Musmar Ali Syed
Caesar, Mata Hari, and Mirza: Story by Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi
Caesar, Mata Hari, and Mirza By Godot Khan Translated from Urdu, a story by Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi (1962). Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi is to receive the...
Akhri Mukalma: Eulogy to Muzzafar Ali Syed by Dr. Khursheed Rizvi
Akhri Mukalma: Eulogy to Muzzafar Ali Syed by Dr. Khursheed Rizvi
Muzzafar Ali Syed: Kuch Puraani Batain by Intazar Hussain
Muzzafar Ali Syed: Kuch Puraani Batain by Intazar Hussain Muzaffar Ali Syed, a prominent Ravian and writer passed away in 2000. Here is a...
Open Letter to Imran Khan – By. Z. Said
You compare yourself to your idols like Ataturk and Ardogan of Turkey, but what is your stance on nonsensical dogma that spreads throughout our villages...
A Cultural Revolution? By Zia Ahmed
Globalization brings different things to different people. Ruin to Argentina, call centers and McDonald’s to India, Maquiladoras to Mexico. To us in Pakistan, it has...
The Vicious Circle of Violence, by M.A.Baig
The TV screens in every Indian home have shown us the savage joy on the faces of the goons who recently attacked poor non...
Famous Quote by Shahenshah-e-Qawwali Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan belonged to the famous Qawwal family who migrated from of Jalandher, Indian Punjab. His voice was shrill from childhood, which he overcame with...
The Internet, Courts and The Past Ghosts
The courts in Pakistan recently ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to ban a total of 17 internet sites that have offended the principles of...
A Conversation with Dr. Ali Hussain Rajput by U. Khan and A. Khan
A Conversation with Dr. Ali Hussain Rajput by U. Khan and A. Khan A mischievous little boy from Chukk Number 30, District Sanghar, Pakistan, recounts his journey from the...
Muttahida Qaumi Movement: The Lost Promise – By R. Habib
Muttahida Qaumi Movement: The Lost Promise – By R. Habib At the onset I would like to acknowledge that I have very mixed feelings about...
The Other Side Of Lyari – By Zahabia Khozema
The Other Side Of Lyari – By Zahabia Khozema The town of Lyari is one of the most infamous towns in Pakistan. Famous for its gang...
Chronology of Life of Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s influence and contribution to political identity of Muslims of South Asia as well Urdu and Persian Poetry remains unrivaled even today. No...
Poets & Politicians: Quote from Allama Iqbal’s private notebook.
“Nations are born in the hearts of poets They prosper and die in the hands of politicians” – FROM STRAY REFLECTIONS: THE PRIVATE NOTEBOOK OF MUHAMMAD...
Iffat Shahab’s grave in Canterbury Cemetery [Kent, UK]
Passing from Canterbury last year, I vaguely recalled the town mentioned in Shahab-Nama, Qudratullah Shahab’s Autobiography. Shahab Sahib mentioned that his wife Dr. Iffat Shahab admired Canterbury as a place...
Jashn-e-Faiz: Targeting A Culture of Revival – By K. Nazish
Jashn-e-Faiz is a proposal for citizens to come out, and re-live the life of a free civilian. The magnitude of its impact depends on your...
My Top Ten Novels by Desi Writers – By A. Naqshbandi
The history of desi fictional writing in the English language has a fairly long history and includes works which are now considered classics of English...
Aurengzeb’s letter to his Son, who used to pray for his father’s death
Naama-e- Alamgir or “Aurengzeb Alamgir’s letter” is Allama Iqbal’s poem from his Farsi section of Armaghan-e-Hijaz [The Gift from Arab]. Despite being a controversial character, Mughal...
