Of commitment and beliefs
This book is a collection of interviews by various journalists with the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The interviews (1972-1976) cover a landmark...
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EXCERPTS: The daughters of Aai
This book presents a collection of contemporary English language stories by over 20 women writers of Pakistani origin. They explore a host of issues ranging...
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ARTICLE: In Babar’s footsteps
In the year 1504 after spending one year in the mountains of Farghana, where he could not make any headway, when relations and friends had all turned...
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AUTHOR: Still a street-fighting man
THE architecture of Jose Saramago’s purpose-built library, as it rises from a parched hillside on his adopted island of Lanzarote, creates the impression of a modern....
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REVIEWS: Woman extraordinaire
THEY say that “life is a journey, not the destination”, and Jane Fonda’s autobiography My Life So Far is a journey through her life — a fascinating, surprising....
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In brief
IT is a real treat to find a person in these times of air travel and bullet trains, with packaged tours, cut-and-dried itineraries and comfortable hotels...
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REVIEWS: Extreme makeover
THERE is near-consensus in the global intellectual community that 9/11 and its aftermath has drawn a firm line under United State’s globally marketed image...
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REVIEWS: Communication strategies
THE current wave of rapid growth in the Pakistani media is partly encouraging and partly troubling. At a time when media participants are struggling to find...
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REVIEWS: It goes on forever
Going through the contents of Food Path — the colourful photographs, the history and geography of the highway that stretches from Kabul to Kolkata...
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At a glance
Here is all you need to know about digital media production. The book provides information on camera techniques, lightening, directing, editing...
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REVIEWS: Common sense in a dress suit
Translating History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell must have been a titanic task but Professor Muhammad Bashir has done it. It is as marvelous...
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In brief
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most complicated offshoots of computer science. Where there is a scarcity of English language books on this complex subject...
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REVIEWS: Unrestrained outbursts
Josh Malihabadi and Firaq Gorakhpuri are the two bastions of Urdu literature but to bring them together in one treatise is a rather unusual venture. Dr Farman Fatehpuri....
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In translation
Health is wealth, they say and this book is all about educating individuals on how to stay healthy in a world full of all kinds of diseases. “By following a few simple rules...
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