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The summer of ’78 LIFE is not easy in 1978, the summer that Fahim and his family move from the tiny apartment at Seaview to the new house in Defence. The house is in a newly-developed neighbourhood...		EXCERPTS: Wild justice MY duties now gave me my first experiences of a category of crimes and ways of carrying them out which would have seemed marvellous in any other locality. These crimes were: cattle poisoning...
AUTHOR: Stirring Imagination ONE of the most outstanding Urdu poets today, Munib-ur-Rahman is in a class of his own. A younger contemporary of Faiz, Rashid, Miraji, Akhtarul Iman and Sardar Jafri, he belongs....		ARTICLE: In the jungle of loneliness Zehra Nigah is a prominent poet, one of the first two women poets to have achieved prominence in the 1950s in a predominantly male realm at that time. Besides her writing....
REVIEWS: A chronicle of tyranny and valour Zameer Niazi’s name will lead the rest in the annals of Pakistan’s press freedom history long after every episode of freeing the media in this country has ended or is throttled....		REVIEWS: How things should be Despite her cynical scrutiny of the lives of the couples around her, Hannah Gavener just can’t seem to grasp the elemental facts about life and love that would enable her to form a satisfying....
REVIEWS: Joy and sorrow “The Indian sun struck fiery glints from the train tracks, the wind sent dust devils whirling down the street, my father glowered, and my mother prayed. I plunked down on a suitcase....		REVIEWS: Mouse proud IN 1928, soon after the birth of synchronised sound, word reached senior MGM employees that there was a mouse in their midst. Naturally, they asked to screen it. Victor Fleming....
REVIEWS: Dying legacy Mushirul Hasan, one of the most prolific research scholars in contemporary South Asia, has presented several aspects of the social and cultural history of Muslim India in his writings....		REVIEWS: Of human weakness Known as ‘The man who broke the Bank of England’ George Soros is a legend in financial and political circles all over the world. The crash of the money markets...
REVIEWS: Graphic or comic? ‘Ambitious’ isn’t a word often applied to a comic book. (Or a ‘graphic novel’, as they’re called these days.) But when the comic book in question runs to 268 pages, spans several...		REVIEWS: Unveiling Reality Irshad Tounsvi’s collection of poems Naddi Naan Sanjoke, carries within it the aroma of Saraiki soil. A bouquet of assorted flowers, the poems have been based on subjects such as optimism....
Children’s book review of the week OF late it seems that almost all senior Sindhi poets have more or less lost interest in penning creative and lively verse for children. Poets of the likes of Ayaz Gul, Mukhtiar Samo...		REVIEW: Deciphering the message PLATO in his Republic is so concerned with creating an ideal state that he makes everything, including art, subservient to truth, justice and virtue. He sees no place for a poet...