It's the first of its kind in India – an Urdu-English women's research magazine brought out by an all-woman team. Nisa, a quarterly magazine, was launched last week in Hyderabad by the Nisa Research ...

SOME 20 years ago, Masood Ahmed Barkati (1933-2017) informed this scribe that Naunehal’s circulation had gone down, almost by half. Barkati Sahib had edited Naunehal, one of the most popular magazines ...

Three years ago, when I decided to look for old Urdu film magazines to trace memoirs that I intended to translate into English, I had no clue what lay in store. Having seen them all through childhood, ...

RECENTLY someone asked me whether Urdu’s literary magazines were still in print or had succumbed to the onslaught unleashed by electronic media. The answer was: “yes, they are still published, though ...

Daylight barely enters the hall. The paint on the blue brick wall has started to flake off. The switchboards are covered with layers of dust. The blades of the ceiling fan are wrapped in cobwebs. An ...

Was it because that after the tumultuous years in which wars had been fought and the country was partitioned that people were finally getting settled in their lives and beginning to realise that a new ...

KARACHI: Siddiqa Begum has achieved her target to publish 80th years’ number of Literary Magazine ‘Adab-e-Latif’ as being the AL Chief Editor. The writers who have read that issue term the latest ...

The magazine stopped publishing during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Its last editor, Asif Fehmi, remembers the magazines trajectory – and hopes to give it another life soon. This article went live ...

Widely recognised for its literary value, Urdu- a language spoken in various parts of India- has seen a decline in speakers, thereby jeopardising the multi-religious, cultural diversity attached to it ...

Daylight barely enters the hall. The paint on the blue brick wall has started to flake off. The switchboards are covered with layers of dust. The blades of the ceiling fan are wrapped in cobwebs. An ...