Today marks the 73rd birthday of arch-feminist poetess, activist Fahmida Riaz, who left us rather too soon last year.

Jaunpuri's poetic tribute to Marx is perhaps the best short ode & introduction to the latter in all of Urdu literature

Despite a long progressive tradition in Urdu literature inspired by events of 1917, not much poetry exists on Lenin

It is unique as none of our leading feminist writers or female poets had written about a transgender person before it

Insha could not live to see how the masses awakened to take back their rights in the form of the Arab Spring.

Perhaps the best translation of how Jinnah would have himself liked his nation to soldier on after and without him...

Standing at the end of old age, I retrieve nothing but regret and sorrow; an extremely exciting part of age has passed

Raza’s defence is a call for budding and persecuted writers today who write to please their calling rather than awards

For his ideological struggle, intellectual position and practical sacrifices, Momand is indeed the equivalent of Faiz.

Siddiqui has played Manto with greater empathy and aplomb, while Khoosat was melodramatic and not very impressive