More about Cervantes and dissimulation On the writer’s use of coded language to present his contemporary reality Updated 03 May, 2016 12:48am
COLUMN: Ikramullah — writing ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ REGRETTABLY, as with Hasan Manzar, but perhaps to a greater degree, the conspicuous absence of Ikramullah from... Published 16 Nov, 2014 06:20am
Column: “In art we are androgynous” By my lights, dim though they may be, the story had neither smut nor objectionable political content nor sex. Updated 21 Sep, 2014 08:13am
COLUMN: Sublimity and grace in Hasan Manzar’s selected stories BECAUSE of his wide ranging and intimate knowledge of national life in its diversity of locale and language, Hasan... Published 28 Jul, 2014 12:34pm
COLUMN:Urdu short story: the modernist phase (1950s and after) The Progressives were more or less a spent force by the mid-1950s, or at least had lost their earlier chokehold on... Published 25 May, 2014 07:36am
COLUMN: Abdullah Hussein — living in exilic mode IF memory serves me right, it was 1963. Like many young adults of my generation, I too had — as Manto’s idiotic... Published 06 Apr, 2014 07:49am
COLUMN: Hasan Manzar — neglected chronicler of man Manzar’s mimetic strategy is pointed away from abstraction, allegorical meaning ... it is grounded in stark realism Published 26 Jan, 2014 07:40am
COLUMN: Ra’epuri’s ‘Literature and Life’ and the progressives To say I enjoyed Akhtar Husain Ra’epuri’s Gard-e-Raah (1984) would be an understatement Published 02 Dec, 2013 12:09pm
COLUMN: Crystal sugar and refined sugar: translation and its warts The percentage of literacy in Pakistan is deplorably low and the share of Urdu in that still less Published 29 Sep, 2013 07:30am
Column: Requiem for vanished hopes: Intizar Husain's early fiction The present, 34 years too late but rather euphoric hullabaloo over Intizar Husain's Basti is perhaps the appropriate... Published 04 Aug, 2013 02:53pm
