Five Never-Heard-Before Couplets of Ahmad Faraz
Here are five couplets of Faraz that you may not have heard or read before.
By Rekhta
August 24, 2018
BUSTING FICTION ESTABLISHING FACTS
The Case of Urdu
A brief history of Urdu language exploring the popular myths that label Urdu as a ‘foreign language’, ‘Islamic language’, ‘camp language’ etc. It also offers a rough sample of a broad and universal linguistic pattern through the case history of India.
By Rekhta
January 31, 2020
Ada Jafarey
The poet, the woman, the mother
Ada Jafarey has had many distinctions: she was one of the first female voices of substance in Urdu poetry; she was refreshingly modernist, and above all entirely inimitable.
By Rekhta
August 21, 2018
Qurratulain Hyder
Locating time present and time past in time future
Qurratulain Hyder’s distinction lay in the way she developed her vision of history and fiction as meta-history and meta-fiction. This is where she had an edge over all others who wrote before, or after her.
By Rekhta
August 18, 2018
Jaan Nisar Akhtar
In dialogue with self and the self’s other
As a word, Jaan Nisar qualifies a person who can submit one’s life. Jaan Nisar Akhtar did so precisely to engage with the demon of life and the muse of poetry.
By Rekhta
August 16, 2018
Stairway to Freedom
Relive the freedom struggle through these Urdu Words.
The struggle for freedom has long and arduous till it reached the destined day.
By Rekhta
August 11, 2018
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