Conversations with a crooner
IN 1949 the music scene in the subcontinent underwent a mellifluous change when the perennially popular...
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FICTION: India rediscovered
ON its surface, Aatish Taseer`s The Temple-Goers is about the weakening but persisting boundaries of...
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Rhythms of freedom
Sadequain is among those rare artists in history who adopted painting as well as poetry as their medium...
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Myths about Urdu
PICK up any Urdu textbook and the chances are that it will endorse the following myths (a) the term...
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Conspiracies, plots and myths
UNWITTINGLY, our private TV channels provide us with more entertainment than they know. The other day,...
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COLUMN: Old and new
SO far we had been reading Suhail Ahmad Khan in piecemeal. It was only in his last days that he made...
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Stories of Sarmad
Among recurring motifs in Sadequain`s work is the image of a headless man holding his lopped head in...
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History of Urdu fiction
Urdu Fiction Ki Mukhtasar Tareekh By Dr Farman Fatehpuri Beacon Books, Multan ISBN 969-534-091-1...
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