Turabi may forever be known as the poet who never got his due in his lifetime, yet his most popular ghazal will ensure that he is in focus.

Turabi may forever be known as the poet who never got his due in his lifetime, yet his most popular ghazal will ensure that he is in focus.

One wonders how Riaz would have reacted had she seen Suu Kyi ascend the heights of political power and compromise herself in the genocide of the Rohingya, in systematic breakdown of the freedom of expression and sustained Muslim hatred.

Kishwar Naheed's latest collection of Urdu poetry masterfully contrasts the ravages of COVID-19 around the world, and the eternal contest between hope and despair.

Faruqi (1935-2020) was simultaneously a high-quality writer, competent critic, respected poet, high-ranking short-story writer, authentic researcher, and expert of prosody and grammar.

The 1970 general elections were a fierce contest between two social democratic parties – the west-based Pakistan Peoples Party of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and the east-based Awami League of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Engels’ book remains to this day, as it was in 1845, by far the best single book on the working class of the period and has been and continues to be regarded as such by subsequent historians.

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, translations offer a glimpse into Kishwar Naheed and Zehra Nigah's protests against the practice.

The Communist Party of Pakistan leader was disappeared on November 13, 1960. For conscious youngsters of the country, his message is still alive.

It was the Pakistan central government's half-hearted attempt at relief and rehabilitation in what was then East Pakistan that strengthened the liberation effort in Bangladesh.

Pakistan’s international repute turned to dust following the killing of a Polish official and three others at Karachi airport, on November 1, 1970.

In 1949, while in Lahore, the poet wrote ‘Avaaz-e-Adam’, in which ‘hum bhi dekhenge' remains a memorable phrase. It ended on the optimistic assertion that the red flag of communism would fly high.

Mustafa Zaidi’s aesthetic taste could never compromise with the speed of time and neither could he harmonise the demands of the heart with the realities of life.

Fiercely political, Majrooh never abandoned the common cause when it came to his poetic creations.

Akhtar's dystopian satire has a power, prescience and timeliness which George Orwell's classic '1984' could not have.

How did the Palestinian liberation movement organically evolve from peasants to revolutionaries, and from resistance in the last century to collaboration and compromise in our own time?

Today, as we mark the end of Zaheer Kashmiri’s centennial year, we remember his indefatigable attention to the world's happenings and his faith in the power of the common people.

From the virulent communalism and corruption sweeping our public life to the common man’s struggle, his powerful verse mirrored the times.

Following the August 4 explosion in Beirut, a re-reading of Habib Jalib’s poem of the 1980s urges us towards the same spirit of internationalism and solidarity with Lebanon.