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Tales of Agnimitra and Tamana By Amber Romasa Nagori Lightstone Publishers ISBN: 978-969-716-310-6 243pp. When I picked up Tales of Agnimitra and...
It is not only humans who are attracted to crimson, juicy and aromatic strawberries. Birds, insects, small animals and even pests are tempted to...
Salaam Auntie, I am a young girl from a middle-class family. I have been a brilliant student throughout my academic career. After my graduation, I...
Happy New Year’s everyone. I thought this was going to be the year of diamonds and rubies for me, but Kulchoo tells me this is the year of the...
The sentiment that ‘revolution was just around the corner’ serves as a poignant distillation of the 1960s ‘counterculture’ zeitgeist. It was a...
‘Perceptual Mirage’ marks a continuation of Waseem Ahmed’s long engagement with the miniature tradition as a critical contemporary language. Rather...
Manohar Das (born in 1568), was a highly skilled and sought-after artist of successive Mughal ateliers, reaching artistic maturity in his late 20s....
Back in 2010, when I first met Mama Qadeer at a local bank on Quetta’s Sariab Road, little did I know it would become a lasting connection. At the...
The Pakistan women’s football team is all set to feature in the upcoming Fifa Series, a women’s football event to be hosted in Brazil, the Ivory...
I was recently at a roundtable in Karachi of industry and higher education representatives, to discuss how Pakistan’s education system can better...
BHUTTO’S SUMMIT WITH SCIENTISTS I had not yet joined the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and was working as an information officer in the...
Fighters aligned with the Southern Transitional Council (STC), a separatist group in southern Yemen, raised their flags in the provinces of...
Photography has long functioned as both visual expression and confrontation. In moments of war and political upheaval, the photographer’s presence...
Everybody calls the Deosai Plateau the ‘land of giants.’ Even the Dawn correspondent in Gilgit wrote that it ‘is sometimes called the land of...
It had Champions Trophy 2017 written all over it, as Ahmed Hussain bucketed a skier at point to dismiss India’s Deepesh Divendran and seal...
From Bangladesh to India and Pakistan, lynchings have become a grim substitute for justice, but South Asia’s mobs are not
They are the jewels of romance: plump, heart-shaped strawberries, dipped in chocolate or shared by hand, their scarlet hue evoking passion and...
The American poet Emily Dickinson said, “Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves.” The words seem timid in a...
With a grandmother from Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, we cousins were all quite familiar with having the traditional comfort food painda (or...
I am an airport person — not because I travel often, but because I love their peculiar atmosphere: the sense of transition, the emotion of crossing...
Landing in my birthplace always gives me the feeling of a tired child resting his head in his mother’s lap, the comfort that says I’m home. This...
Death on the Lusitania R.L. Graham Pan Macmillan ISBN: 978-1035021918 400pp. RL. Graham is the collective nom de plume of a husband-and-wife team...
Want to be on the ball and go into 2026 knowing exactly what's cool, what's trending and what to avoid? Eos off ers its annual
While the concept of the ‘hybrid regime’ traces its origins back to 1970, it was formally solidified in modern political science during the 1990s...
Q. Based on your experience, which month do you think is the most suitable to plant strawberries in Islamabad? A. Strawberry plants undergo...
Political and Social Change in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas: Understanding Pashtun Youth By Naveed Ahmad Shinwari Routledge ISBN: 978-1032956091 246pp....
The Way We Weren’t By Cliftonia Ali Published by A Random Penguin Pages: 32 Genre: Romance Rating: 5 stars Known for her brevity, Cliftonia Ali...
In a letter dated November 22, 1952, Professor Syed Masood Hasan Rizvi Adeeb of Lucknow writes to Allama Syed Murtaza Hussain Fazil Lakhnawi, “...
You might want to sit down for this one. About 100 years ago, a Norwegian philosopher named Peter Zapffe wrote what’s now considered one of the...
There are exhibitions that simply present artworks, and then there are those that make you question the very act of looking. ‘Lines and Language’,...
Kicking off in 2019, the FIH Pro League is the flagship event of the International Hockey Federation. The event, held annually, is contested by the...
The group exhibition ‘Unfolding Identities’, curated by Mohammad Zeeshan Haider Jamali, was recently on display at ArtCiti Gallery in Karachi and...
Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, a former chief minister of Punjab and one of Pakistan’s most durable political survivors, passed away on December 16,...
Zunaira Qayyum, who will turn 15 in July next year, is currently reading Crime and Punishment, arguably the most well-known work of Russian master...
George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, explores a fictional totalitarian regime that maintains absolute power by...
A successful strawberry harvest begins not with planting, but with patience. Properly acclimating your new runners — the long stems that grow from...
Design is often considered a luxury, yet the reality is that nothing can be manufactured without first being designed. It can be as simple as an...
I often tease Cardinal Joseph Coutts, the second priest in Pakistan to rise to the esteemed position of cardinal, about his uncanny resemblance to...
Echoes of Sorrow By Raheel Ahmed Legacy Books ISBN: 978-627-7706-04-3 247pp. Echoes of Sorrow is written by Raheel Ahmed, who has also authored...
It’s a situation most drivers on Karachi’s major thoroughfares have experienced, especially on weekend nights and public holidays: a ghost...
The hallmark of a well-executed sporting event lies in the host city’s cultural and sociopolitical fabric blanketing the games in a warm welcome....
In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime. — Diane Mott Davidson On Tuesday, 16 October,...
A posthumous retrospective of the artist Mashkoor Raza’s (1948-2025) work was held at Mainframe Gallery, Karachi. The show opened a window into the...
Haan, so yesterday, I said to Kulchoo, “Congratulations, beta.” “What for?” “For Basant,” I said. “What’s that?” he asked. Haw, look...
The night the last full Heer was sung in a village in Jaranwala, the moon was so bright that old men swore Ranjha himself had returned to listen....
The belief that history is a critical guide for predicting the future is facing a severe test. The enduring idea is best encapsulated by former...
Back in 2004, after fetching me and my sisters from our schools in Clifton, my mother unexpectedly careened the car towards Hatim Alvi Road instead...
“From Plato to Nato, the history of command in war consists of an endless quest for certainty…historical commanders have always faced the choice...
Urbanisation patterns over the past two decades dictate that the future is decidedly city-bound. The UN-Habitat’s World Cities Report 2022 shows...
One extremely engaging and rewarding activity for any child is to pluck a ripe, juicy strawberry directly from the plant. This is possible due to...