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Currently, one of the most frequently used words in political discourses is the term ‘polarisation’. Recent studies demonstrate that a majority...
The concept of ‘home’, on a philosophical level, is a complex and multifaceted idea that has been pondered by various thinkers throughout...
Pakistan is on the verge of celebrating 76 years since its first-ever National Games. Held in April 1948, 140 participants from across the newly...
Cliftonia: The Later Years A History Book For Sixth Graders By Shagufta de la Mare Single Curriculum Publishers Chapter 354 Cliftonia Ali was a...
In the Land of the Pure By Kenize Mourad Lightstone Publishers ISBN: 978-9-69-716280-2 313pp. Kenize Mourad’s debut novel, Memoirs of an Ottoman...
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In 2015, it was my honour to be invited by the education advocacy campaign Alif Ailaan to teach storytelling to Pakistan’s parliamentarians. Titled...
Maritime Security: Challenges & Responses in a Changing World By Admiral (Retd) Iftikhar Ahmed Rao IPS Press ISBN: 978-969-448-834-9 478pp. This...
Rang Barang Tailasaan (Urdu Translation of Husayn b. Mansur al-Hallaj’s Kitab al-Tawasin) By Syed Nomanul Haq Maktaba-i-Daniyal ISBN:...
Dear Auntie, I have been through a rough break-up. I ended the relationship, seeing that it wasn’t working out despite the efforts I was making...
“Where did you come from?” “From Poland.” “When?” “1948.” “When exactly?” “March 1, 1948.” A heavy silence prevailed. All of...
April is recognised as the Sexual Assault Awareness Month globally. In Pakistan, though, sexual awareness remains a controversial topic and it is...
“In the dark times/ Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing… about the dark times.”— Bertolt Brecht Till now,...
One of Zehra Nigah’s most quoted poems begins with: “Suna hai jungalon ka bhi koi dastoor hota hai [I have heard that jungles also have...
KGB Man By Cecil Kuhne Knox Press ISBN: 978-1637585924 208pp. You may have watched Steven Spielberg’s award-winning 2015 film Bridge of Spies,...
Not many art enthusiasts visiting Paris museums are aware of the works of Theodore Rousseau and his mind-boggling paintings dedicated to the beauty...
Bhai, you tau know I’m a PP (oho baba, Proud Punjoo) and so, when my Chief Minister Sahiba gave us one month to take out our trash and to clean up...
After an unprecedented season of success by Red Bull in 2023, Ferrari is sniffing victory this year. After the annual break in Formula 1, things...
Like politicians, political commentators, too, frequently use the word ‘awaam’ [the masses]. I once asked a political analyst what he meant by...
Pakistan-China: All-Weather Strategic Partner By Dr Rashid Jamal Loheadab Publications ISBN 978-969-7504-22-0 194pp. The flyleaf of Dr Rashid...
Not too long ago, an acquaintance shared with me the link of a recent research paper, ostensibly profiling “Well-Known Pakistani Muslim Feminist...
Awaaz: Echoes of Freedom and Justice By Ansar Burney, with Shehar Bano Rizvi and Tasneen Premjee Chamdia Ansar Burney Trust ISBN: 978-9692397902...
When Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan in early March 2024, it marked a spectacular fall from grace: from...
I was working as a medical director in a pharmaceutical company a few years ago when I had the opportunity to attend the launch of a vital product...
One night, at a birthday party not too long ago, I told a few of my cousins about the dog flower. The flower opens up just like how a dog would...
Recent years have been tumultuous in Pakistan’s politics. Even by the standards of the country’s tortuous history and its record of instability,...
Eight women… strangers all. Yearning for Me Time Ages… Twenty-five to sixty-four Travelling… Into the great Unknown Destination… a quaint...
The German writer J Wolfgang Goethe once quipped, “Blessed is the nation that doesn’t need heroes.” As if to expand upon Goethe’s words, the...
“‘Listen up — there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on...
The British actor, director, playwright and critic Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946) writes in one of his famous prefaces to Shakespeare’s work:...
Mrs Arshad’s son, Aalyan, was subjected to bullying at a private school when he was 14 years old. “My child was traumatised to the extent that...
A distinct memory from my student days, almost three decades ago, was the photograph of a woman as she looked at a leaf in Karachi. On that leaf,...
The transformation of the ordinary into the extraordinary is the one promise that art consistently makes to the viewer. Curator and teacher Nurayah...
The Path I Made — A Memoir By Tasnim Ahsan Lightstone Publishers ISBN: 978-969-716-211-6 423pp. Living on your own terms is not easy in Pakistan,...
Finland steadily ranks as the happiest country in the world. In March 2024 the country was, for the seventh year in a row, ranked as the happiness...
Mightier: A Selection from the Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women 2019-2023 Edited by Syra Rashid Vahidy Reverie Publishers ISBN:...
The Whispering Chinar By Ali Rohila Liberty Publishing ISBN: 978-627-7626-068 168pp. ‘Chinar’ — when we read this word, we immediately think...
Before corporate ice-cream pushcarts dominated the summer streets, there were old-school kulfi-walas. In fact, for generations, summers were...
It is 11:36pm on a Friday night in Ramazan. The locality of Lyari in Karachi is drowning in darkness because of power outages. Despite the ‘...
Blame the star. Humans had just started to recover from the realisation that the Earth moves around the Sun and not the other way around. The...
Till the 1960s, the idea of engineering an ideal society was an earnest endeavour. It did not draw the kind of cynical ridicule or even dread that...
Established with a vision to celebrate and empower female voices in literature, The Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women invites...
Gone are the days when Lalukhet aka Liaquatabad was considered to be a no man’s land, strictly because of socio-political reasons. But its...
'Being Human’, ModA Curations’ inaugural exhibition in New York City was showcased during New York’s Asian Art Week. ModA Curations launched in...
Q. I live in Karachi. Please guide me from which nursery in the city can I get the butterfly bush or the summer lilac plant? A. The butterfly bush...
Siyani Diwani (Short Stories) By Noor Zaheer Maktaba-i-Daniyal ISBN: 978-969-419-119-5 196pp. Noor Zaheer, daughter of Sajjad Zaheer — a...
An artist’s work holds no significance unless it can be seen. And Usman Khan was an artist, or at least he himself believed so, as he toiled hard...
It baffles us that, since the events of October 7th, people around the world — particularly millennials and Gen Z — continue to focus on the...
Foundations and Form: Memoirs of a Pakistani Architect By Mukhtar Husain Jaal Publications ISBN: 978-9-6923-0567-9 288pp. The title, Foundations...
On a recent visit to Iran, I was shocked at how little I could understand of spoken Persian. I could read and comprehend fluently but was struck...
Sometime in 1973, I received a phone call from a person who called himself the ‘chor [robber] man’ of the federal government’s Appropriate...
Today, we may live many lives rolled into one — we may hold multiple jobs, or may have changed professions along the way; half of a family may live...
In January 2024, just when university students had returned to begin their winter semester, Canada’s federal government announced a two-year cap...
How China Became Rich? From Poverty to Prosperity – An Eyewitness Perspective By Syed Hasan Javed Paramount Books (Pvt.) Ltd ISBN:...
Last year, I had the opportunity to visit Pakistan’s embassy in Beijing, with journalists from my country. There, the then Pakistan’s ambassador...
Karachi is no stranger to academic conferences, seminars, scholarly talks, literature festivals and musical evenings. Yet, with the...
After the 1985 elections, Gen Zia had to choose a prime minister. Given that a popular Sindhi leader of the stature of Bhutto had been hanged,...
One of my favourite evergreens I am never tired of reading is John Toland’s 1,400-page biography of Adolf Hitler. With so many biographies and...
Cliftonia: The Early Years A History Book For Fifth Graders By Shagufta de la Mare Single Curriculum Publishers Chapter One In ancient times, when...
De-securitize, De-colonize, Industrialize: A Manifesto for Structural Reforms By Raheem ul Haque Sanjh Publications ISBN: 978-969-593-432-6 208pp....
With the passage of time, consuming red lettuce daily with my meals has become routine for me — during the season, of course. While trumpeting...
The Wagah-Attari border ceremony — a daily, rather ridiculous ritual, marking the closing of the Pakistan-India border — serves as a backdrop for...
In my previous column, I had mentioned that the dozen or so Urdu poets we remember today as the masters of the language, through our exposure to...
The ninth season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) concluded with Islamabad United clinching their third title, making them the most successful...
To celebrate Leon Bakst’s largely forgotten existence, Bibliothèque de France and Opéra National de Paris recently organised concurrent...
Lahore Aik Shehr-i-Bemisal (Volumes I&II) By Ahmad Saeed Department of History and Pakistan Studies, Punjab University ISBN: 9-789-699-3258-30 Vol...
In 1975, a conference on the history of Sindh was organised in Karachi. It was treated as an important event by the then prime minister of...
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