PHILOSOPHY and philosophers have usually been target of jokes. The disrespect for philosophy is not uncommon in our society alone, but the westerners also do not hesitate to poke fun at philosophers.

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL), Dr Muhammad Yousuf Khushk lauded the valuable contribution of noted Urdu poet, dramatist, critic, columnist and fiction writer, Amjad Islam Amjad ...

The most striking recent addition to Kidderpore in Kolkata in an obelisk in the middle of a roundabout with Iqbal’s stirring paean to India, Saare Jahaan se Achchhaa, engraved on it. Even more ...

Urdu is known to have originated in the armed forces of the Mughal Empire, and was in no way tied to religion.

Assalaamu alaykum, Sheikh. In pakistani culture, if the husband says, 'I divorce you', it would count as a divorce no matter what his intentions were. However, if a husband did not pronouce the word ...

The manipulation of media and its ever-increasing influence on society has been a subject of many research studies. However, the scholarship in the Urdu language has remained limited to literary, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi’s bimonthly journal, is India’s oldest and the only journal of its kind featuring translations ...