Let's remember that a victory after all is victory and a defeat, just that.

It is natural for Pakistan to celebrate Faiz but he has also won admirers far beyond our lands.

Basant was banned because clerics hate the festival. Why must they refuse the public all joy?

The modern ghazal, I realised, had given birth in India to a prose ghazal.

Why do participants in political debates on TV shout so much? And why do they all talk at the same time?

Imtiaz Ahmed has compiled this selection of John Elijah’s essays published by Bahauddin Zakariya University.

The water carrier is back and the Karachiites’ prayers have been answered.

Most books about Muharram are either collections of marsia elegies or discuss the modern Urdu marsia as a genre.

Here's the story of a Coffee House waiter who served famous poets and intellectuals back in the day.

There’s been a lot of hue and cry over it with some people suggesting that Afridi had been ‘caught out’.