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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading and Public Speaking By Mehdi Hasan Henry Holt & Co ISBN: 978-1250853479 336pp. In 1933, in an...
Bird Milk and Mosquito Bones: A Memoir By Priyanka Mattoo Knopf ISBN: 978-0593320389 304pp. Kashmiris, despite being spread across the globe, are a...
Rolaak By Rafaqat Hayat ILQA Publications ISBN: 978-969-640-288-6 670pp. Re-imagine the story of Sophocles’ tragic play ‘Oedipus Rex’, in which...
Numerous books have been written on Islam in Pakistan. So, two years ago, I set out to write a book on the history of liberalism in Pakistan. It is...
The two primary reasons for growing and tending to plants at home is to beautify one’s surroundings and to ensure a regular supply of organic and...
These days, people tend to associate the word ‘Chinese’ with a whole lot of different things, meanings and experiences. For me, though, it evokes...
A midst the numbing hum of activity on Karachi’s Beaumont Road, a colonial-era structure called Manijeh Mansions — erroneously listed as...
Javaid Mughal’s exhibition, ‘In the Company of Strangers’ held at the Sanat Initiative in Karachi, delves into the contemporary malaise of...
PROLOGUE On January 16, 2023, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sat down with the Dubai-based television channel, Al Arabiya and, among other issues,...
Since the beginning of 2024, Pakistan has witnessed a rapid surge in the targeted killings of journalists, with at least eight lives claimed thus...
The poet John Donne wrote, “No man is an island.” People inevitably form communities — through a family, a neighbourhood or a profession....
After more than four weeks and 51 football matches, Euro 2024 drew to a close with its total audience again likely to have exceeded five billion...
Dear Auntie, I am a recently appointed MBBS doctor in my village in Sindh. While at university, I fell in love with a girl from another province,...
[This is the land of Karbala, tread carefully The fragments of the family of Muhammad (PBUH) lie here] — Unknown “Our public spaces are as...
Kishore Kumar Khatri always had a penchant for visuals. As a child, he would doodle abstractions and draw images that struck his fancy. He was born...
In 2017, Pepsi aired a commercial in which the American model Kendall Jenner breaks away from a fashion shoot to join a protest rally. She is then...
Colonising Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation By Hafsa Kanjwal Stanford University Press ISBN: 978-1503636033 384pp. Colonising...
In my previous two columns, I explained how apple gourd seeds germinate into robust, sprawling vines, highlighting the various stages of the...
What a delight it always is to visit Rouen, the North-Western French city and capital of the Normandy region. Apart from the magnificent hills,...
The recent Kenyan protests are a warning that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is failing. The public does not think it is helping its member...
My Marvellous Mind: A Journal for Big Little Emotions By Areej Jaffrani Illustrated by Denise Andrades Saaya Health Paramount Books (Pvt) Ltd....
National Icon&Hope, Nazir Jr There are so many things that I hate about you. How can I restrict myself to just 10? You see what you are trying to...
One Sunday morning in Karachi — I was eight — I heard my mother telling my father about a film she’d seen that Sunday morning, titled Zindagi...
Mah-i-Uryaan By Sarmad Sehbai Aks Publications ISBN: 9789697312177 176pp. Visual arts faced a monumental challenge in Abrahamic milieus. The Divine...
Visitors to the makeshift Lyari Textbook Public Library, popularly known as the Mulla Fazil Hall Library, can be forgiven for feeling a bit like...
Museums in former colonial powers face challenges in calls for decolonising their collections, but the issue acquires a different hue in India....
On March 3 this year, I, along with a group of other very fit Pakistanis, summited Mount Kilimanjaro — the highest peak in Africa. Located in...
"You are men and women of violence,” proclaims Dave Grossman, a retired military officer, to eager police trainees in the award-winning documentary...
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has a history of voting against parliamentary bills that look to enhance or safeguard women and minority rights....
My friend Arshad Jamil is a mechanical engineer who lives in the US and is in his mid-eighties. He visits Pakistan regularly and offers his expert...
The word slogan comes from a Scottish battle cry that roughly translates as “cry of the people.” While now largely associated with advertising,...
After a decade of anticipation, the Indian cricket team has finally captured an ICC trophy, winning their second T20 World Cup. This victory, led...
Two weeks ago, I discussed the seed-sowing methods and germination process of the apple gourd vine. The apple gourd fruit is locally, and more...
Jab Moarikh Ke Haath Bandhay Thay — Tarikh-i-Pakistan Ke Gumshuda Goshay By Dr Farooq Adil Qalam Foundation ISBN: 9-789697-461059 288pp. You...
Hidden Fires By Sairish Husain HQ, an Imprint of Harper Collins ISBN: 978-0008297497 384pp. Waking up in the middle of the night to pray on the...
Raspberry crumble bar is a type of dessert bar: a layered dessert which usually contains a biscuit or crumble base, topped with a tier – or tiers...
The gruesome killing of Khalil Jibran in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Landi Kotal area last month was the seventh case of a journalist murdered in...
Dispatches of Resilience: The Fight for Life in Pakistan By Mohsin Dawar Folio Books ISBN: 9-789697-834600 111pp. Mohsin Dawar is only 39 years...
Mysticism occupies a transitional space, merging opposites like darkness and light, life and death, and action and contemplation. Rooted in...
Social and Political Concerns in Pakistan and India: Critical Conversations for College Students By Anjum Altaf Lightstone Publishers ISBN:...
Over the last several years, Quetta’s Sariab Road, once the site of frequent terror attacks and explosions, has been transforming — for all the...
Bhai, I’m tau very depress. What would have gone of theirs, if our cricket team had, for once, done their duty, won a few matches and brought home...
Player AI By Muhammad Omar Iftikhar Dastaan Publishing ISBN: 978-969-969-955-6 41pp. After seeing the Pakistan cricket team in action (read...
Lee Kuan Yew, the former prime minister of Singapore and the architect of the tiny country’s giant economy, first visited Pakistan in 1988....
April 21, 2024, was a beautiful spring day at the American University (AU) campus in Washington DC. Yet, there was palpable tension in the air as...
Q. I read your article on the red lipstick plant with great interest. I have grown it in my apartment. We take great care of it. Recently, while...
Ustad Amanat Ali Khan, the celebrated scion of the Patiala gharana [clan] of our classical music, did wonders when he took to singing geet and...
An idea born out of the refugee crisis of the past few years culminated in the show ‘Legacies of Crossings’, which showcases the works of 13...
Julian Assange is out of prison, after agreeing to plead guilty to violating the US Espionage Act. [At the time of this writing,] he is expected to...
The past two months have been particularly tough on Pakistan sports. First, the men’s cricket team’s questionable preparation for the T20 World...
On the weekend before Eidul Azha, the festival of sacrifice, a video surfaced on social media of a camel with one of its forelegs chopped off. The...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence By Mishal Husain Fourth Estate ISBN: 978-0008531683 336pp. BBC broadcaster Mishal Husain’s...