Gulzar’s love for both Urdu and Pakistan is well-known. These poems put him on par Iqbal, Faiz and Ahmad Faraz.

His poem presciently deconstructs our politics and politicians, or how those who profess to be devout are corrupt.

His work took a stand against repressive regimes, & became the reason Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto imprisoned him in Hyderabad.

We are the protectors of flowers, we are the keepers of (their) fragrance, whose blood have you come to drink?

He left behind a dozen intensely political poems showing an uncanny awareness of the horrors of war and imperialism.

Today marks the hundredth birthday of one of Pakistan’s greatest painters, Shakir Ali (1916-1975).

Nicknamed as the ‘female Manto’, her life and legacy are surprisingly marginalised by middle-class girls in...

Manto uses Bhagat Kabir as a protagonist to satirise the emerging trends of intolerance, orthodoxy and chauvinism.

His stories are memorable, chastising ancient beliefs which keep the ordinary person ignorant and the women oppressed.

Shahbaz Sharif announced that a first-ever labour policy for Punjab would be announced on the occasion of Labour Day.