ABOUT a couple of years ago, a news item appeared in a Karachi newspaper highlighting the sorry state of Persian in academic institutions. It mentioned that at that time no college in Karachi offered ...

THE study of poetic metres is called prosody. Prosody is known as arooz or ilm-i-arooz, not only in Urdu but in Arabic and Persian as well. Other prosodic terms such as behr (metre), rukn (feet of a ...