Harris Khalique
Inam Nadeem is among those who embrace different forms of art with equal vivacity. His extraordinary comprehension ...
Published 10 Jan, 2021 11:03am
In a country where philosophy is not even taught in most public and private colleges and universities, and where...
Published 13 Dec, 2020 08:06am
During his active political career, Saif Khalid was imprisoned multiple times...
Published 25 Oct, 2020 07:09am
Everywhere, there are some politicians who take to writing at an opportune time in their careers. They write on...
Published 04 Oct, 2020 08:39am
In Pakistan, those citizens who feel concerned about the rapid deterioration happening in almost every walk of life,...
Published 06 Sep, 2020 07:02am
The potion people were given to consume over the decades was prepared by evenly mixing the majority faith...
Published 16 Aug, 2020 07:02am
It seems that the world has finally begun to follow us. As has happened to Pakistan for decades unending — with a...
Published 19 Jul, 2020 06:46am
Prof Navid Shahzad has recently recalled in one of her writings what George Orwell said soon after the Second World...
Published 24 May, 2020 05:26am
Everywhere in the world, people with a literary bent of mind sometimes name their children after poets or writers....
Updated 26 Apr, 2020 11:42am
Is the rise of strong populist men in democracies around the world comparable to the rise of Hitler and Mussolini?
Updated 12 Apr, 2020 07:07am
Can art be separated from issues of power? How does creative expression in today’s world differ from the eras that have
Updated 15 Mar, 2020 01:08pm
I am presently engrossed in William Dalrymple’s dazzling work The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India...
Published 23 Feb, 2020 07:06am
All characters are so palpable and identifiable in the context of Pakistan’s political history and sociology, that...
Published 19 Jan, 2020 08:35am
For those who have moved across places, there is a town where they dwell and there is a town which dwells inside...
Published 15 Dec, 2019 09:09am
Back in the 1970s and ’80s, at a fairly young age, it was in his native Lahore that he joined the political...
Published 17 Nov, 2019 07:19am
Dr Rakhshanda Jalil is one of those rare language scholars and literary translators who have an exceptional command...
Published 20 Oct, 2019 06:59am
She was born in the same year as Allama Muhammad Iqbal, but outlived him by three decades. A true polymath, a woman...
Published 15 Sep, 2019 07:02am
M.D. Taseer, a leading poet and critic in the early and mid-20th century, gained recognition for his writing under...
Published 11 Aug, 2019 07:06am
In this age of mindless populism, narrow nationalism, renewed misogyny and personality cults, we stand sharply...
Published 14 Jul, 2019 06:55am
I begin with a qualification that Pakistan’s intellectual scene — academic, artistic, literary and social — is...
Published 09 Jun, 2019 07:03am