BOOKS IN BRIEF

Published October 8, 2017

Dr Syed Qasim Jalal ka Adbi Safar: Nisf Sadi Ka Qissa
Dr Sajjad Haider Parvez

Written with the intent to provide reference material for those interested in ‘Jalaliat’, this book covers all aspects of its subject’s life, from his family origins and education to service in the government and literary efforts.

Cheen se Bartania Tak
Hanan Ali Abbasi

A social activist and president of the National Youth Assembly, the author writes of his travels to China and the United Kingdom as a youth ambassador of Pakistan, making particular note of the educational and youth initiatives of the two countries.

Road to Mohenjo Daro
Naheed Sultan Mirza

The author’s third novel, after Dasht-i-Khwaab Ke Musaafir and Aankhein Aahin Posh, is a story of love, revenge and the broken dreams of youth, beginning in 1980s’ London and culminating on the road leading to the ruins of Mohenjo Daro.

The Shoonyam Quotient: The Light of Life
Dr Mickey Mehta

The health guru and corporate life coach explains how one has to be neither negative nor positive; one must simply be optimised, and shares his techniques on meditation, spirituality and nutrition — both earthly and cosmic.

Published in Dawn, Books & Authors, October 8th, 2017

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Editorial

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