The passing away last week of Fahmida Riaz, formidable poet, prose writer, translator, feminist and rights activist, Published Dec 02, 2018 07:04am

My short stint as a young man in Central and Eastern Europe during 1995 and 1996 was indeed rewarding — both... Published Nov 11, 2018 07:05am

Oscar Wilde famously said that “the true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” But the... Published Oct 28, 2018 07:09am

Muhammad Hasan Askari has always intrigued me as a formidable scholar, writer and critic. But his conceptualisation... Published Oct 21, 2018 08:34am

Usually, the crassness of politics and power agitates you and the refinement in art and literature soothes. But then... Published Oct 14, 2018 07:11am

Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, our major poet, fiction writer and literary editor from the last century, once recalled meeting ... Published Oct 07, 2018 07:00am

In Pakistan, India or other developing countries, it is a common sight that old buildings of bricks and mortar are... Published Sep 30, 2018 06:28am

In his 2005 introduction to ‘Jejuri’ — a celebrated poem by the leading English and Marathi language poet Arun... Updated Sep 24, 2018 03:57pm

It is problematic when great poets in any language are not only identified but categorised by their geographical... Published Sep 16, 2018 06:45am

I would truly feel small if asked to comment on a work of art as brilliant, celebrated and so thoroughly analysed ... Published Sep 02, 2018 06:58am

It seems that what the state traditionally thought was its responsibility — particularly during the Zia years —... Published Aug 26, 2018 07:40am

V.S. Naipaul and Samir Amin — one a celebrated man of letters and the other an outstanding political economist —... Published Aug 19, 2018 07:21am

Universally, there is a love-hate relationship between literary criticism and creative writing. On the one hand,... Published Aug 12, 2018 07:47am

What we see in Pakistan today has been the case for long. The biggest irony that marks South Asian Muslim upper and... Published Aug 05, 2018 07:28am

In this election fever I am once again reminded of Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story ‘Naya Qanoon’ [The New... Published Jul 29, 2018 07:31am

In religious societies such as ours, a constant tension is observed between the afterlife and the here and now.... Published Jul 15, 2018 06:25am

The French poet, essayist and thinker Paul Valery (1871-1945) captured his readers’ imagination like few would.... Published Jul 08, 2018 07:16am

I am in Lahore when Professor Yousuf Hassan is being laid to rest in Rawalpindi. I cannot make it to his funeral, ... Published Jul 01, 2018 07:07am

There is a country and there is a country’s conscience. When we witness India going through times comparable with... Published Jun 24, 2018 07:06am

The elites in our society have the ability to first co-opt and then eulogise icons of resistance once the brand of... Published Jun 15, 2018 07:05am