The book has five sections. In the first section the author describes at length the elements and the history of Urdu dastan, something he is at home with as his doctoral dissertation was on the ...

For example, on the topic of word history and etymology one can find scores of books in English but Urdu, say the naysayers, has nothing to offer on this subject. So let us bust another myth about ...

Many books of Urdu poetry were written in Roman and Devnagari ... is truly worth reading as it traces the history and evolution of Urdu poetry and prose, using a rich variety of selections to ...

29. Kulliyat-i-naat: by Mohsin Kakorvi, one of the best naat-writers of Urdu. 30. A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi and English: by John T. Platts. A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi and ...

The book that traces history of Urdu shayars in Vadodara was released at a function here on Sunday. According to Qadri, over 25 shayars shifted to Baroda state during the rule of Maharaja ...

Can Urdu be a lamp? This book is not about ‘party politics ... I think there comes a time in the history of nations when they need their poets most; not the politicians, nor policy-makers ...

Marsia has not been a genre for male Muslim poets alone. In his book Urdu Marsiay ka Safar (History of Urdu elegy), Syed Ashoor Kazmi has mentioned the names of at least 17 Hindu poets who wrote ...

Sellers first set up stores in the Urdu Bazaar in the 1920s, selling stacks of books from literature to religion, politics and history — as well as texts in Arabic and Persian. By the 1980s ...

Karachi University’s urdu literature professor ... He appreciated the contribution that these books will make in Pakistan about Japanese literature, history and its economic boom.

It was a place where one could get the best of Urdu books, the works of fiction and non-fiction, constitutional law, Islamic law, the translation of the Quran and the Vedas and the Ramayana too.