On the writer’s use of coded language to present his contemporary reality Updated May 03, 2016 12:48am

REGRETTABLY, as with Hasan Manzar, but perhaps to a greater degree, the conspicuous absence of Ikramullah from... Published Nov 16, 2014 06:20am

By my lights, dim though they may be, the story had neither smut nor objectionable political content nor sex. Updated Sep 21, 2014 08:13am

BECAUSE of his wide ranging and intimate knowledge of national life in its diversity of locale and language, Hasan... Published Jul 28, 2014 12:34pm

The Progressives were more or less a spent force by the mid-1950s, or at least had lost their earlier chokehold on... Published May 25, 2014 07:36am

IF memory serves me right, it was 1963. Like many young adults of my generation, I too had — as Manto’s idiotic... Published Apr 06, 2014 07:49am

Manzar’s mimetic strategy is pointed away from abstraction, allegorical meaning ... it is grounded in stark realism Published Jan 26, 2014 07:40am

To say I enjoyed Akhtar Husain Ra’epuri’s Gard-e-Raah (1984) would be an understatement Published Dec 02, 2013 12:09pm

The percentage of literacy in Pakistan is deplorably low and the share of Urdu in that still less Published Sep 29, 2013 07:30am

The present, 34 years too late but rather euphoric hullabaloo over Intizar Husain's Basti is perhaps the appropriate... Published Aug 04, 2013 02:53pm