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738PoetryWhen This Is Over-Zainab Manko
When this is over I want to see you again Like fresh a lotus I want to feel you Cup your face...
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638Book ReviewTaraqqi Pasand Afsana:Muashrati-O-Tabqati Kashmakash(Progressive Short Story: Social and Class Conflict)-A Review-Dr.Reyaz Kashmiri
Progressive Writers’ Movement is without any doubt one of the greatest movements in Urdu literature. The movement’s influence on Urdu literature especially...
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734PoetryThe Lost File of Love-Aasma Tahir
Anarkali!What’s this noise in the courtyard of your tomb?Whenever I feel lonely and dejected,And this world kills my creativity,I open the windowHere...
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2.2KInterviewsPast, Present, and Future of Pakistani-English Literature-Muneeza Shamsie Speaks to The Prelude
Muneeza Shamsie is a prestigious writer, an Eminent critic, bibliographer, literary journalist and a reputed editor in terms of Pakistani-English Literature. She...
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988ArticlesShehnaz: The Indian Beauty Who Mesmerized Everyone, From Nehru to Dilip Kumar-Sophia Naz
In the early 50s, not long after she had arrived in Bombay (later Mumbai) as a newly-married bride, my mother portrayed Anarkali...
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990PoetryThe Dance of Life-Asif Khan
The table was small, and he had put too many things on it, things large and small, precious and fragile, placed in...
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795Short StoriesAiza-Zakia Nasir
She sat in her office simmering with indignation, fists clenching and unclenching, sheresisted the desire to bang them on the table, as...
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694ArticlesSardar Udham: The film and a nostalgic idea of anti-colonial resistance-Rida Akhtar Ghumman
Making resistance literature, par excellence for excellent is the spirit supposed, is a complicated phenomenon especially in the “master’s” factory. Film and...
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1.1KShort StoriesRailway Station 1947-Rao Attiq Ur Rehman
At the Bahawal Nagar railway station, some local Muslims were anxiously waiting for the train which was bound to take the remaining...
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962Book ReviewRaagni ki Khoj Mein(In Search of Ditty),A journey towards Spirituality-Nadia Anwar
From the enviable pen of Najiba Arif comes another mesmerizing book appropriately titled as ‘Raagni ki Khoj Mein’ [In Search of the...
