It is commonly assumed that plethora of languages have taken part in the evolution of Urdu. A great deal of words, idioms, allusions have been borrowed and adopted from the holy Quran and Arabic… Read More

This paper discusses Pascal’s concepts of God, human misery, fear, and other existentialist themes. His intellectual journey and its outcomes are thought to have been very significant in… Read More

This paper seeks to bring forth some historical facts about the composition of a poem “Shabnam aur Sitārē” by Allama Iqbal which is included in his first poetry collection Bāng-i Darā. This poem… Read More

This article introduces and reviews two unpublished manuscripts of the travels from Delhi to Afghanistan. Both travels were sponsored and initiated by the East India Company, and the objectives of… Read More

Just after the partial annexation of Punjab in 1846 by the East India Company, Sardar Bahadur Lala Amin Chand joined the Company’s administrative service and became a prominent civil servant of… Read More

While Hindi literature and many other South Asian literatures are awash with bucolic elements, Urdu seems to be an exception in this regard. Phanishwar Nath Renu’s influential Hindi novel Mailā… Read More

This article seeks first to explain the defining features of the archetype of The Old Wise Man and then traces its instances in Urdu short stories. In Urdu, this archetype exists with surfeit of… Read More

Psychological realism is a narrative technique that aims to describe and divulge the inner conflictual self of a character. It also seeks to underscore the hidden reasons spurring the actions of a… Read More

History is full of accounts of devastations caused by pandemics. The destruction caused by influenza in 1918-1919 has no parallel in history. At the same time, humankind faced another devastation… Read More

Ecocriticism has evolved as a global literary theory during the last three decades. The whole world is currently facing an environmental disaster bred by anthropocentrism—a worldview which accrues… Read More

Women writers around the globe are still struggling to build a writing culture and tradition of their own because they entered the realm of formal writing late and in lesser numbers throughout… Read More

The paper titled “Hindi, Urdu or Hindustani? Revisiting ‘National Language’ debates through radio broadcasting in late colonial India” deals with an old controversy surrounding Urdu and Hindi but… Read More

How can we conceptualize multilingual literary culture, and how can we do research around this idea? Using the turbulent ‘long fifteenth century’ in north India as a site, this article questions… Read More