Eminent Urdu critic, dramatist and a proponent of modernist movement in Urdu literature, Shamim Hanafi passed away in Delhi on Thursday. He was 85 years of age. Rekhta's official Twitter handle ...

The void left by Shamim Hanfi is colossal, the loss deep Sub-microscopic pathogens are not just lethally destructive but also absolutely mindless and blind. They do not care about who is going to be ...

Majlis e Frogh e Urdu Adab (MFUA) is a world famous Urdu literary organisation based in Qatar. Each year the organisation awards two prominent writers each from Pakistan and India. Reputed and known ...

KARACHI: There is no need to ‘label’ Urdu literature as Pakistani or Hindustani as language transcends all barriers - this was the theme that started off the 5th International Urdu Conference on ...

Professor Shamim Hanfi is widely known as a critic but not many know that he is also a poet, fiction writer, radio screenwriter, translator, potter and a painter. Hanfi believes the novel has ...