SOME critics draw parallels between Urdu ghazal and Urdu short story. Ghazal, the most popular genre of Urdu poetry, is known for its brevity, compactness and crispness. It is this quality that ...

a series of dramatic readings of Urdu short stories, conceived with the help of academic Aslam Parvez. Its finale will be held on October 28. The Poetry Club (TPC) introduced Mehfil, where members ...

The feminist movement in Urdu poetry originated in Pakistan ... The writer is a Lahore-based critic and short story writer and professor of Urdu at University of the Punjab.

Uski baaton mein mera dil aa gaya, Ab toh woh taa-umr dhokha khayega... This couplet embedded in one of the poems embodies how poet-singer Minu Bakshi casts a spell on the reader through her ...

This extension in the definition of the term implies that the works of poetry also fall in the ... leaves the reader desiring for more. Short story, Urdu fiction's most popular form, entered ...

For this volume, I must have read several dozen short stories before I drew up the ... Yes, there is a great deal of Urdu poetry that is about love and romance; the word “ghazal” actually ...