CRICKET: MEMORIES WORTH PRESERVING
A visit to the PCB’s Cricket Museum in Lahore
Nyla Daud
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
FICTION: FLIGHT TO FREEDOM
An allegorical treatise on the human desire for freedom and the Sufi path
TRAVEL: THE BLIND MAN’S GARDEN
The magnificent wilderness of Sharan in district Mansehra brings all your senses alive
NON-FICTION: LIVES AT THE END OF THE RAJ
Thoroughly researched history told with the intimacy of fiction captures an era of great upheaval in the subcontinent
EDUCATION: A SCHOOL IN THE MOUNTAINS
Devoted and determinded, a husband-and-wife team has built a remarkable primary school in Naltar valley
ENVIRONMENT: PINING FOR THE PAST
A lament on how urban development has wreaked havoc on the once pristine hill town of Abbottabad
NON-FICTION: THE CALL OF THE SUFI
True stories of people across the religious divide, who all found solace in Nizamuddin Auliya
200-year-old palace Faiz Mahal gets a second life
Khairpur's pink palace, built in 1798, is being revived to its original glory through elaborate renovations
HERITAGE: THE MAJESTIC FAIZ MAHAL
An elaborate renovation process has given Faiz Mahal a second lease of life
NON-FICTION: HISTORIES OF THE SELF
A personal record that gives a glimpse into those aspects of Pakistan’s history on which authorised texts tend to remain
ENVIRONMENT: TEN WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
For some it may have been just a tree but its majestic glory had witnessed a generation’s memories being born
TRAVEL: BUTTERCUPS AND BUTTERFLIES
Manoor and Beyari in the Kaghan Valley are nearly untouched by civilisation and worth a trip
NON-FICTION: JUST A REGULAR GUY
It is not possible to define the great and the sublime without the ordinary and the ridiculous
A woman at work
Leaving Pakistan for the United States in the 1970s deepens the connection between the author and her Islamic roots