In a time where the adage ‘there are no free dinners’ is a social norm and not an academic concept, anything that comes for free is a welcome change. So when Ali Mozaffar Jafry and Azad Qalamdar, two ...
L: New NYRB edition of "Basti" by Intizar Husain; R: Husain at the Karachi Literature Festival on February 5, 2011. (Karachi Literature Festival/Flickr) No summary of Basti can do justice to its ...
URDU translations of Quran began quite late as compared to Quran’s translations into European languages: Robert of Ketton, also known as Rodbertus Ketenensis, translated Quran into Latin in 1143, says ...