While launching an Urdu poetry album with actor-wife Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar emphasised the importance of the Urdu language and the role Punjab played in its growth. The veteran lyricist and ...

The Urdu novel charts and reflects the history of Pakistan in the entirety of its 75 years of existence, recording and narrating the ups and downs, sorrows and triumphs as well as the good times and ...

Bollywood's renowned lyricist Javed Akhtar is in the headlines once again after he shared his thoughts about Urdu. Akhtar made the statement when he attended the launch of Dr Satinder Sartaaj's Urdu ...

WHEN the sun peeped out from behind the horizon on August 14, 1947, much to its surprise it was an altogether different landscape in the subcontinent, not only politically but also literarily and ...

The provenance of Urdu literature produced in Pakistan in the last 75 years lies in the poetics of modern-national literature which began in response to colonial conditions of the late 19th Century ...

Pakistanis like me blog and tweet in English because that is our comfort zone. Pakistani private schools, many of which were legacy British colonial institutions (or pretend to be) had a bias for ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On May 28, 2026, the last of the progenitors of modern Urdu poetry, Bashir Badr, left the grand mushaira of the living and ...

Indian writer, poet and songwriter Javed Akhtar, who has been making headlines lately for his bold and controversial statement about Pakistan, has now decided to declare that the Urdu language is an ...

Bashir Badr, a prominent Urdu poet known for his evocative couplets, passed away in Bhopal at the age of 91. Renowned for ...