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Dear Sir, My name is Nazir Jr. I am the national icon and hope of my people, the Cliftonians. I come from the Republic of Cliftonia. It is a...
Ahfazur Rahman Aur Mozahmat: Adbi Khidmaat Aur Azaadi-i-Sahaafat Ki Jidd-o-Jehd By Dr Syed Jaffar Ahmed Institute of Historical and Social...
I Paying tribute to some of the oldest living beings on our planet, ‘Walk Among Trees’ at the Koel Gallery, Karachi featured works by Anoushka...
Pakistan, as we all know after seeing sportspersons from so many other disciplines performing at the international level, is much more than just...
The artist Farrukh Adnan was born in Mian Chunnu in Punjab a year after the Partition. In a collection of his work recently exhibited at the...
Dear Auntie Agni, I read your advice in the newspaper and thought I could share my feelings with you. I am a student and also a very silent person....
As the Kaamai winds recede, fishermen in Balochistan’s small town of Gadani prepare to venture out into the sea by loading fuel barrels into...
Governments in a number of Muslim-majority countries are gradually rolling back certain conservative laws that were framed as being ‘Islamic’....
West Asia at War: Repression, Resistance and Great Power Games By Talmiz Ahmad HarperCollins, India ISBN: 978-9354895258 304pp. Whether it is...
The calendula, scientifically known as calendula officinalis and locally as gul-e-ashrafi, is a daisy-like flower. Belonging to the asteraceae...
Send Nudes By Saba Sams Bloomsbury, UK ISBN: 978-1526621771 224pp. It is not very often that one comes across a book that is astonishingly honest...
Fusion is a nuclear reaction that combines two atoms to create one or more new atoms with slightly less total mass. The difference in mass is...
This article is a result of a study on how the poor view their poverty — unlike most studies where, on the basis of a survey, consultants decide...
Facing declining markets in Western countries, multinational food companies are targeting Africa, Asia and Latin America as new consumers of...
On the last day of 2022, more than 30,000 male and female applicants from across Pakistan flocked to the capital in order to appear for a written...
Just like there is a villain for every hero in a film, there are pests and insects for every juicy harvest, foliage, leafy plant and blossoming...
Winter gloom continues to strike Pakistan all-format captain Babar Azam and his eleven in what has been a forlorn home cricket season, following...
Just as you turn left from Liberty Chowk towards Liberty Market in Lahore, you have Capri Restaurant to your left, just across the road from the...
Nightcrawling By Leila Mottley Bloomsbury, India ISBN: 978-1526634559 270pp. Despite its imperfections, Leila Mottley’s gritty debut novel...
Sometimes the most beautiful creations emerge from the darkest parts of our being. That’s how I felt looking at the vividly painted, incredibly...
Taking the ghizhek (a traditional violin) from a hanger on a wooden pillar and slowly dusting it off with an old piece of cloth, Ustad Rehmatullah...
One of the most well-known catastrophes of political polling occurred in the 1948 U.S presidential election between the incumbent Harry Truman and...
One of the most well-known catastrophes of political polling occurred in the 1948 U.S presidential election between the incumbent Harry Truman and...
Natural and economic disasters, wars, revolutions and genocides have dotted the timeline of history leading to the collapse of countries and...
In November 2020, former president of the United States, Barack Obama, released his memoir A Promised Land. According to Associated Press reports,...
There was a time — not very long ago — when students, labour, journalists and a representative segment of literary writers methodically worked...
His ancestors ruled India’s greatest princely state, his grandfather was the only prince to be proclaimed His Exalted Highness. By the time he...
Governance of Islam in Pakistan: An Institutional Study of the Council of Islamic Ideology By Sarah Holz Sussex Academic Press, UK ISBN: 978-...
When 23-year-old Ayra* got engaged in September 2022, she was over the moon… until she realised that her wedding date had been set for December....
Intimacies By Katie Kitamura Penguin Random House, UK ISBN: 978-1529112078 240pp. Like many of her previous works, Katie Kitamura’s fourth novel,...
Contrary to statist narrations about the advent of Islam into South Asia as being of one-sided benefit to the ‘pagan’ region, there is plenty...
Khalaa Kay Uss Paar Safar: Eric Shipton Ki Shohra-i-Aafaaq Kitaab ‘Blank on the Map’ Ka Urdu Tarjuma By Muhammad Abduhu Green Heart, Faisalabad...
1946 The Last War of Independence: The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny By Pramod Kapoor Lightstone, Karachi ISBN: 978-9697161720 350pp. In 1946, ratings...
Sprinkled with salt and pepper and served on the recycled pages of newspapers or magazines, piping hot sweet potato cubes are a delicious treat for...
In November, the Wellcome Collection closed their ‘Medicine Man’ gallery. In a Twitter thread, they acknowledged that “the display still...
Dard-i-dil likhoon kab tak jaoon un ko dikhlaoon Ungliyaan figar apni khamah khoon chikan apna [How long shall I write my heart’s pain, let me go...
I was introduced to Mahekan through a short video. It showed my friend Munir Musiani, the deputy commissioner of Balochistan’s Kharan district,...
Dutchman Siegfried Aikman is the head coach of the national hockey team since December 2021. During this period, Pakistan has participated in some...
Oskar Kokoschka remains probably the most deliberately neglected among the European painters, not for any other reason but on account of his own...
What is it about pulao that keeps you wanting more? There›s a certain je ne sais quoi about this rice dish cooked in a stew (made from any protein...
Stones Hold Water Zakia R. Khwaja So many of us — women, especially — would nod in agreement at a grandmother admonishing a young girl to tie back...
Last week, the official Twitter handle of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) shared a video of 2022’s Pakistan Day parade, in which the guest of...
In 2018, Pakistan passed The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, which not only prohibited discrimination against transgender people in...
"The government had adopted a posture of complete neutrality. This created a peculiar situation and encouraged fissiparous and divisive tendencies....
Despite the passage of almost half a century of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s time in power, from December 1971 to July 1977, at least five policies and...
The South Asian Islamist theorist Abul Ala Maududi (d.1979) detested secularism. His ideas went a long way in constructing what came to be known as...
Round and round the park they go, looking for a place to park the car. The ‘Central Park’ is hardly that, merely a walking track around a...
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced at a Christmas gathering in Islamabad that a draft bill was in the works and the establishment of a...
Trees today are valued almost exclusively for their role in mitigating global warming. Hence, there is an urgency to plant trees and save forests....
Sherpa: Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of Everest By Pradeep Bashyal and Ankit Babu Adhikari Cassell, UK ISBN:...
Last year started with a prime minister being deposed, and went on to see an economy going down an IMF-monitored drain, an army presser saying they...
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Jo Fletcher, UK ISBN: 978-1529417999 320pp. I'm always quite envious when I see my daughter...
Q. I need your advice for my monstera plant. The leaves are getting a little pale yellow in colour and the centre vein has tiny yellow dots. This...
Jogo Bonito. When a certain Brazilian player used this phrase to describe football and how it should be played, he not only started a cultural...
Anyone who closely follows the work of Australian-Pakistani artist Nazia Ejaz knows that her work offers a visual experience that’s a little off...
Both/ And: A Life in Many Worlds By Huma Abedin Simon and Schuster, US ISBN: 978-1501194801 544pp. Autobiographies can be difficult to review. Not...
Many of us speak or know more than one language, yet we are either not cognisant of the significance of these languages or their sonorous role in...
It is almost a daily struggle for Arham* to find dinner. Going from one café in the university to another, all he finds is meat-based options. “Do...
Say goodbye to 2022, welcome in 2023, with the hope that there is some respite from the shocks, tribulations and instability of the past year. But...
What does a writer desire from the world? Certainly neither honours, awards, nor positions. He desires to maintain a distance from all those...
It may not have been so in the past — perhaps because of the well-rounded scholarship of the literary stalwarts leading both the Progressive...
You’re standing in the shadows while the artwork is illuminated by a single spotlight. Even the walls are dark. The atmosphere created for VM Art...
The gallery ArtChowk recently hosted an award-winning virtual reality (VR) docudrama, ‘Child of Empire’, as well as a venture by Project Dastaan,...
As winter grips the nation, once-green trees are now replaced with bald trunks and brown stems. Heaps of yellow and brown dried leaves lie raked in...
As a globally-warmed January ushers in the New Year — bringing a chill to our bones and a flare to our nostrils — we felt it was incumbent upon us...
Jidd-o-Jehed-i-Azaadi Aur Tashkeel-i- Pakistan Mein Nawab Bahadur Yar Jang Ki Khidmaat Ka Tehqeeqi Mutaala By Dr Shahana Begum Bahadur Yar Jang...
More Than You’ll Ever Know By Katie Gutierrez Penguin, UK ISBN: 978-0241529980 435pp. Secrets aren’t just burdens that we carry; they also act...
In Search of the Divine: Living Histories of Sufism in India By Rana Safvi Hachette, India ISBN: 978-9393701114 432pp. It is a Thursday evening and...
Pakistan’s raison d’être as a nation-state has three positions. At the time of the country’s inception in 1947, the state sought to invent a...