Nyla Daud

NON-FICTION: BORN WITHOUT PERMISSION

An English translation of a woman’s story brings forth with great poignancy and spirit what a whole generation of children went... Published 29 Oct, 2023 07:03am

FICTION: CONTROL AND REBELLION

A page-turner of a dystopian novel about a future one-party United Kingdom that harshly enforces a one-child policy is as much... Published 01 Oct, 2023 06:53am

FICTION: AROMA THERAPY

Historian Aanchal Malhotra’s debut novel is a story of deep love spread across four generations, and is steeped in scents Published 13 Aug, 2023 08:24am

TRAVEL: A DEOSAI ADVENTURE

Deosai in Skardu is the second highest plateau in the world. The journey to it is as wondrous as the place itself. But better... Published 18 Jun, 2023 07:09am

NON-FICTION: REDISCOVERING THE GRAND TRUNK ROAD

Salman Rashid’s beautifully produced travel treatise is a zesty story of the origins of this extensively traversed highwa... Updated 11 Jun, 2023 07:27am

ARCHITECTURE: THE ART OF MUD

Village women in pockets across Pakistan create mud filigree art as ornamentation for their mud houses. But while the... Published 12 Mar, 2023 07:15am

FICTION: AMBITION VERSUS EMOTIONS

Tahmima Anam’s latest, futuristic novel is about technology, ambition, creativity, business and tornado-like undercurrents of... Published 12 Feb, 2023 09:37am

NON-FICTION: THE SUFI CIRCUIT

Merging the personal and the public, this highly readable book will appeal to serious academics and to shrine culture’s die-har... Published 01 Jan, 2023 08:50am

ESSAY: THE CLOSURE OF BELONGING

Although it has been 75 years since Partition, the loss of family homes and prized possessions continues to weigh heavy on some Updated 21 Nov, 2022 08:53pm

NON-FICTION: THE VOCABULARY OF PARTITION

A ground-breaking work is objective literature that rises above partisan subjectivity Published 09 Oct, 2022 07:18am

NON-FICTION: LETTERS TO MY FATHER

Moneeza Hashmi’s book is a debt of honour to Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s fans, who would have known nothing about the sentiments Faiz the... Published 04 Sep, 2022 11:10am

FICTION: THE UNDERBELLY OF SOCIETY

Ali Akbar Natiq’s sophomore novel touches upon so many disturbing facets of society that one is left reeling... Published 12 Jun, 2022 08:58am

NON-FICTION: OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY

Murree of yore, both colonial and postcolonial, comes alive in the pages of this showstopper of a coffee table book,... Published 21 Nov, 2021 07:32am

SOCIETY: THE SKY GETS DARK SLOWLY

As social demographics and lifespans change, the need for holistic, specialised healthcare addressing the unique needs of... Published 03 Oct, 2021 07:11am

ESSAY: THE AMAZING TALE OF NIZAMI BANSARI

Discarded, unearthed, mislaid… then retrieved again, a manuscript about Sufi saint Nizamuddin Aulia spans centuries and... Published 05 Sep, 2021 07:15am

NON-FICTION: HOW THE TWAIN EMBRACED

An absorbing fairytale of the power of love over cultural dissonance and a woman’s strength of character... Published 20 Sep, 2020 06:56am

NON-FICTION: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

A sociologist looks at the common problems faced by women in Pakistani society and shines a light... Published 24 May, 2020 05:26am

CRICKET: MEMORIES WORTH PRESERVING

A visit to the PCB’s Cricket Museum in Lahore Published 01 Dec, 2019 07:34am

FICTION: HAMMER ON THE HEAD

An almost pre-adolescent high school take on the persecution of the vulnerable and on the gore, the greed and the Published 23 Jun, 2019 07:00am

FICTION: FLIGHT TO FREEDOM

An allegorical treatise on the human desire for freedom and the Sufi path Published 09 Dec, 2018 07:06am