Amjad Parvez

Editorial complains about sudden rise in postal fee. An ordinary letter that used to be sent with Rs 8 ticket now is of Rs 20. Book post and registration post tickets are even higher. This exorbitant raise has practically minimized the transmittal of not only this but also other literary magazines. The editorial also highlights […]

In the domain of music, one important means of identifying it is in Raag tradition in the subcontinent’s music. Parvez Paras, author of the book titled ‘Tori Ki Riwayat’ took Ayesha Ali, associate writer of the book, to Hafeez Khan of Talwandi Gharana. It is from where she started discovering the new layers of Sur […]

The literary magazine Kheyal-o-Fun completed 25 years of its publication in 2019. It started being published simultaneously from Lahore and Doha in 1994 onwards due to the untiring efforts of Muhammad Mumtaz Rashid (who added the surname Lahori on return to Pakistan), an engineer by profession but a writer cum poet by passion. Presently he […]

When I wrote that the August 2019 issue of literary journal Tasteer comprised 654 pages, it sounded like a heavy volume but it was not. Naseer Ahmad Nasir, a poet of international repute has been very regular in the publication of this literary magazine since many years. He says in his poem in the corner […]

Living up to its reputation, editor Mumtaz Ahmad Sheikh has published another issue of quarterly literary magazine Lowh covering the first half of 2019. It is an amazing feat that he manages his work (business) and passion (literature) simultaneously keeping quality in both endeavours in mind. Mumtaz admits in his editorial that two decades ago […]