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NON-FICTION: HOW TO SPEAK BETTER

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...

22.07.2024 60

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Maheen Usmani

NON-FICTION: TO KASHMIR WITH LOVE

Bird Milk and Mosquito Bones: A Memoir By Priyanka Mattoo Knopf ISBN: 978-0593320389 304pp. Kashmiris, despite being spread across the globe, are a...

22.07.2024 5

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Sara Danial

FICTION: THE DARKNESS OF EMOTIONS

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...

22.07.2024 10

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Hajra Rehan

SMOKERS’ CORNER: PAKISTAN'S 'USEFUL IDIOTS'

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...

21.07.2024 100

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Nadeem F. Paracha

GARDENING: FAIREST OF THEM ALL

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...

21.07.2024 5

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

EPICURIOUS: THE TASTE OF MEMORIES

These days, people tend to associate the word ‘Chinese’ with a whole lot of different things, meanings and experiences. For me, though, it evokes...

21.07.2024 20

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Faisal Quraishi

HERITAGE: THE PAST IS MANIJEH MANSIONS

A midst the numbing hum of activity on Karachi’s Beaumont Road, a colonial-era structure called Manijeh Mansions — erroneously listed as...

21.07.2024 2

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Ali Bhutto

EXHIBITION: MODERN TRAPPINGS

Javaid Mughal’s exhibition, ‘In the Company of Strangers’ held at the Sanat Initiative in Karachi, delves into the contemporary malaise of...

21.07.2024 2

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Amna Nizar

SHOULD PAKISTAN TRADE WITH INDIA?

PROLOGUE On January 16, 2023, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sat down with the Dubai-based television channel, Al Arabiya and, among other issues,...

21.07.2024 20

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Ejaz Haider

RIGHTS: THE GREAT FIREWALL OF PAKISTAN

Since the beginning of 2024, Pakistan has witnessed a rapid surge in the targeted killings of journalists, with at least eight lives claimed thus...

21.07.2024 6

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Sheraz Khan Rajput

ARTSPEAK: SEEKING COMMUNITIES

The poet John Donne wrote, “No man is an island.” People inevitably form communities — through a family, a neighbourhood or a profession....

21.07.2024 1

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Durriya Kazi

FOOTBALL: EURO 2024 AND EUROPE

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...

21.07.2024 2

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Paul Widdop

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

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,...

21.07.2024 4

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From Inpapermagazine

THE URDU NOHA AND ITS SPATIAL DYNAMICS

[This is the land of Karbala, tread carefully The fragments of the family of Muhammad (PBUH) lie here] — Unknown “Our public spaces are as...

14.07.2024 20

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Mansoor Raza

EDUCATION: DRAWING TO ENGAGE

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...

14.07.2024 2

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Dolat Chandani

SMOKERS’ CORNER: BRANDING THE BRANDS

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...

14.07.2024 20

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Nadeem F. Paracha

NON-FICTION: LESSONS FROM INDIA’S COLONISATION OF KASHMIR

Colonising Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation By Hafsa Kanjwal Stanford University Press ISBN: 978-1503636033 384pp. Colonising...

14.07.2024 4

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Danish Khan

GARDENING: FRUITING THE TINDA

In my previous two columns, I explained how apple gourd seeds germinate into robust, sprawling vines, highlighting the various stages of the...

14.07.2024 2

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

EXHIBITION: ART FOR PLEASURE

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,...

14.07.2024 7

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Zafar Masud

WORLD: THE IMF AND ITS DISCONTENTS

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...

14.07.2024 1

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Danny Bradlow

NON-FICTION: DEALING WITH EMOTIONS

My Marvellous Mind: A Journal for Big Little Emotions By Areej Jaffrani Illustrated by Denise Andrades Saaya Health Paramount Books (Pvt) Ltd....

14.07.2024 1

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Rabeea Saleem

CLIFTONIA: 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU

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...

14.07.2024 1

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Farid Alvie

COLUMN: THE LITERARY COURTESAN

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...

14.07.2024 8

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Aamer Hussein

POETRY: POETRY AS A VISUAL ART

Mah-i-Uryaan By Sarmad Sehbai Aks Publications ISBN: 9789697312177 176pp. Visual arts faced a monumental challenge in Abrahamic milieus. The Divine...

14.07.2024 2

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Syed Nomanul Haq

SOCIETY: CITY OF LOST WORDS

Visitors to the makeshift Lyari Textbook Public Library, popularly known as the Mulla Fazil Hall Library, can be forgiven for feeling a bit like...

14.07.2024 2

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Ayaz Khan

DISCOURSE: DECOLONISING MUSEUMS

Museums in former colonial powers face challenges in calls for decolonising their collections, but the issue acquires a different hue in India....

14.07.2024 2

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Hemanth Kadambi

MOUNTAINEERING: CLIMBING KILIMANJARO

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...

14.07.2024 1

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Madeeha Syed

THE PROBLEM WITH PAKISTAN’S POLICE

"You are men and women of violence,” proclaims Dave Grossman, a retired military officer, to eager police trainees in the award-winning documentary...

07.07.2024 2

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Mahar Murrawat Hussain

SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has a history of voting against parliamentary bills that look to enhance or safeguard women and minority rights....

07.07.2024 2

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Nadeem F. Paracha

SOCIETY: THE CASE FOR MANDATORY SERVICE

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...

07.07.2024 6

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Mukhtar Husain

ARTSPEAK: DEFINED BY SLOGANS

The word slogan comes from a Scottish battle cry that roughly translates as “cry of the people.” While now largely associated with advertising,...

07.07.2024 2

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Durriya Kazi

CRICKET: TWO TEAMS, DIFFERENT MINDSETS

After a decade of anticipation, the Indian cricket team has finally captured an ICC trophy, winning their second T20 World Cup. This victory, led...

07.07.2024 10

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Muhammad Abu Bakar Farooq

GARDENING: TINDA LOVING CARE

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...

07.07.2024 2

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

NON-FICTION: EXCAVATING LOST HISTORY

Jab Moarikh Ke Haath Bandhay Thay — Tarikh-i-Pakistan Ke Gumshuda Goshay By Dr Farooq Adil Qalam Foundation ISBN: 9-789697-461059 288pp. You...

07.07.2024 3

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Muhammad Suhayb

FICTION: THE PAIN OF SILENCES

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...

07.07.2024 8

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Nyla Daud

EPICURIOUS: SHORT AND SWEET

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...

07.07.2024 2

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Maliha Diwan

MEDIA: TARGETING THE JOURNALISTS

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...

07.07.2024 3

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Hussain Dada

NON-FICTION: FIGHTING WITH WORDS AGAINST MILITANCY

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...

07.07.2024 3

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Imtiaz Piracha

EXHIBITION: MYSTICISM AND MASTERY

Mysticism occupies a transitional space, merging opposites like darkness and light, life and death, and action and contemplation. Rooted in...

07.07.2024 2

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Rumana Husain

NON-FICTION: ARGUING FOR ENLIGHTENMENT

Social and Political Concerns in Pakistan and India: Critical Conversations for College Students By Anjum Altaf Lightstone Publishers ISBN:...

30.06.2024 10

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Farooq Sulehria

SOCIETY: THE READERS’ CLUB OF SARIAB ROAD

Over the last several years, Quetta’s Sariab Road, once the site of frequent terror attacks and explosions, has been transforming — for all the...

30.06.2024 10

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Muhammad Akbar Notezai

DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY

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...

30.06.2024 2

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Moni Mohsin

FICTION: ROBOT TO THE RESCUE?

Player AI By Muhammad Omar Iftikhar Dastaan Publishing ISBN: 978-969-969-955-6 41pp. After seeing the Pakistan cricket team in action (read...

30.06.2024 5

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Shahzad Hasan

SMOKERS’ CORNER: FAITH AND THE ECONOMY

Lee Kuan Yew, the former prime minister of Singapore and the architect of the tiny country’s giant economy, first visited Pakistan in 1988....

30.06.2024 2

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Nadeem F. Paracha

STUDENT UNIONS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY

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...

30.06.2024 9

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Ammar Ali Jan

GARDENING: ‘IS HEAT KILLING MY INDOOR PLANT?

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...

30.06.2024 7

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

COLUMN: RAGING TORRENTS OF THE HEART

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...

30.06.2024 10

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Harris Khalique

EXHIBITION: MOVEMENT AND MIGRATION

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...

30.06.2024 9

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Samar F. Zia

MEDIA: ASSANGE’S VICTORY, BUT WITH A CAVEAT

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...

30.06.2024 3

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Peter Greste

VOLLEYBALL: UNDER THE RADAR, OVER THE NET

The past two months have been particularly tough on Pakistan sports. First, the men’s cricket team’s questionable preparation for the T20 World...

30.06.2024 1

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Taha Goheer

RIGHTS: NO COUNTRY FOR POOR ANIMALS

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...

30.06.2024 5

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Mehrin Mansoori

NON-FICTION: THE EMPIRE AND I

Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence By Mishal Husain Fourth Estate ISBN: 978-0008531683 336pp. BBC broadcaster Mishal Husain’s...

30.06.2024 10

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Nasreen Rehman

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