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Another good book on the alternative history of the media in the 1980s is ‘Mun Gharhat Aurat’ (Concocted woman) published in 1997. The Simorgh...
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In the fifth part of this series on B M Kutty published yesterday in these pages, we discussed the formation of the NAP provincial governments in...
In the fourth part of this series on B M Kutty published on September 9 in these pages, we discussed how he felt disgruntled by the petty squabbles of...
After the government of Pakistan banned the Communist Party of Pakistan in 1954, B M Kutty was actively involved in the Awami League of H S...
We continue with our discussion of B M Kutty’s life that we initiated last week. In the previous column published on September 2, 2019, we...
In the first part of this article published yesterday, we discussed the Indian episode of Kutty’s life. In this column, we discuss his early life in...
My father knew B M Kutty – who died in Karachi on August 25, 2019 – since the early 1950s. They were not close friends but shared a common streak...
This is the last of my columns in the ‘Learning from Japan’ series. In Pakistan, there have been numerous interventions by international donor...
One of the reasons for Japan’s rapid progress in the 20th century was its education system. Today we discuss some of the salient features of...
Up until now, in the five earlier parts of this series we have discussed the politics of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in the 1970s. We...
Any discussion about the South Asia of the 1970s will remain incomplete unless we also discuss Afghanistan – the country which has suffered the most...
In the previous part of this essay published yesterday, we had looked at politics in Bangladesh and Pakistan from 1975 to 1977. Here we start with...
The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK and works in Islamabad. In the second part of this series last week we discussed how...
In the first part of this article, we looked at some of the differences and similarities in the politics of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan from the...
Brooke Shields introduced me to Franco Zeffirelli. Not that I was friends with Brooke – but she took me to Franco, the Italian master of film and...
My previous column about Girish Karnad and his plays ‘The Dreams of Tipu’ and ‘Tughluq’ drew the attention of readers more internationally...
Not even a week had passed since the death of Enver Sajjad that another great actor, director, playwright, public intellectual, translator, and social...
Dr Enver Sajjad, who died in Lahore on June 6, 2019, at the age of 84, started writing in the early 1950s when he was still a teenager. So his span of...
With the death of Thailand’s power-broker, General Prem Tinsulanonda, on May 26, 2019, at the age of 99, a long history of political meddling has...
Karachi has seen a lot, pain and pleasure. After a long time, the city is enjoying relative peace. For the past two decades, we have not the witnessed...
‘Que Sera Sera – whatever will be, will be’, sung by Doris Day was the song that won millions of hearts the world over in the 1950s, and remains...
On May 3 (today), World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) is observed internationally. It was first proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1993; so...
In the first part of this article yesterday, we discussed Jamil Jalibi’s foreword to Munshi Sajjad Hussain’s novel ‘Haji Baghlol’. Here we...
When Jamil Jalibi died last week on April 18, 2019, at the age of 92, Urdu lost an intellectual of high calibre whose books run into dozens – all of...
On April 18, in the district of Gwadar near Ormara at least 14 passengers were killed by unidentified assailants. They were travelling by bus from...
My two-part series last week, ‘Remembering Bhutto the writer’, drew tremendous response from readers. As expected, Bhutto’s followers loved it...
In the first part of this article that appeared yesterday on the 40th death anniversary of Z A Bhutto, we discussed his earlier books such as The Myth...
Today marks the 40th death anniversary of Z A Bhutto, arguably the most intelligent and well-read political leader Pakistan has had in its 72-year...
The ever-increasing population has been a major challenge for Pakistan for at least 50 years. When East and West Pakistan separated in 1971, the...
Be it our government functionaries, state officials, or religious leaders, they waste no time in condemning terrorism against Muslims in other...
In the first part of this series, we discussed how ‘Jang’, founded by Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman established itself as the foremost Urdu newspaper in...
It would not be an overstatement to say that daily ‘Jang’ has influenced at least three generations of Urdu readers in the Subcontinent. Though at...
It was Sunday morning on March 3, 2019. The last day of the KLF was about to start when Dr Ayoub Shaikh posted on Facebook a most devastating piece of...
As the number of literary conferences and festivals is increasing every year, some people are complaining about a festival fatigue, meaning there will...
In my previous column yesterday, I wrote about the two books that I bought at an unlikely place in Sindh – the Vanjara Café near Mirpurkhas. The...
As we were moving from Tharparkar to Hyderabad, colleagues from Thardeep (a rural support organisation) stopped for tea near Mirpurkhas. And there it...
It is always nice to interact with young boys and girls studying in public universities, where most of them come from humble backgrounds. A recent...
Just by looking at the front page of a newspaper you can get an idea about how important perceptions are. The two main headlines of this newspaper on...
Normally, four federal ministries in any federal system of government are considered the backbone of a federation: defence, finance, foreign affairs,...
There are not many bookshops in Skardu, but whenever I happen to be there my friend, Aziz Ali Dad, takes me to Soday Books – a compact and fine...
Suddenly, some of the sages appearing on electronic media and writing in newspapers have realised that they have been short-changed. Many of those who...
Hamlet: Slanders, sir; for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber...
This is the last part of my series on animals in literature, and I would like to move to insects with a brilliant story, ‘Laal Chiontay’ (Red...
This is the last two-part column of my series of essays on animals in literature. But before I proceed, one correction: in my previous column’s...
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