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From Delhi to Lucknow

Why did Don Quixote, a 17th-Century Spanish novel, gain such popularity in the 19th-Century Lucknow? Was its allure linked to its European origins—an object of desire at the time—or was there deeper cultural resonance between the 19th-Century Lucknow and the 17th-Century Spain?

The fact is that despite the vast differences in their cultures the late 19th-Century Lucknow and the world depicted in Don Quixote shared several traits, such as wit, humour, satire, ostentation and elegance.

Non-Fiction: Evaluating Tarar

A new book presents a serious critical study of Mustansar Hussain Tarar’s novels

Linguistic identities

Exploring the multifaceted journey of Sindh through Rana Mehboob Akhtar’s narrative

Divergence and convergence

Iqbal explored the modern divergence between poetic and religious imagination

Poetics of disobedience

Ismat Chughtai’s remarkable journey of defiance and liberation

The journey of ideas

Unravelling the impact of travelling theories on cultures and literature

Streets with no names

Asghar Nadeem Syed’s newest novel blurs fact and fiction in musing over the lost years of Gen Zia’s dictatorship

The god of poetry

Commemorating Mir Taqi Mir, the undisputed master of Rekhta, in the 300th year of his birth

The poet of love

Amjad Islam Amjad, who passed away February 10, was, in the jargon of mushaira organisers, a ‘crowd-puller’. His immense popularity, especially with youngsters, hinged on how he focused on the theme of love