Words have a cultural and political history. And the latter often involves manipulations and assertion of power...
Published 29 Aug, 2021 07:06am
Naseer Turabi, who passed away on January 10, had only two slim volumes of poetry to his name, but his...
Published 17 Jan, 2021 06:55am
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, who passed away on December 25, was a true giant of Urdu literature — a critic, a poet, a novelist,...
Published 03 Jan, 2021 07:31am
Asif Farrukhi, who passed away on June 1, was more than just a fiction writer, an essayist, a critic, a translator or a literary festival organiser. He was truly a giant of global literature...
Published 07 Jun, 2020 06:55am
Syed Nomanul Haq meticulously turns a compiled version of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s collected works into a critical one and thus
Published 15 Dec, 2019 09:21am
Umera Ahmed’s latest novel is all about simplistic binaries and the rejection of the world in
favour of the author’s
Published 22 Sep, 2019 06:58am
It was the second day of Eid; everyone was in a mood of celebration and all marketplaces, including the flowers shops...
Updated 23 Jun, 2019 03:57pm
Suroor Barabankvi’s collected works make clear that the late poet was one who illuminated the personal as much as the
Published 10 Mar, 2019 09:14am
The naiveté of the modernisation project was a direct result of uncritical acceptance of the colonisers’
Published 21 Oct, 2018 08:34am
Fiction’s most significant form appears when it creates grey areas and challenges black-and-white certainties
Published 19 Aug, 2018 07:21am
A novel grapples with the crises of identities in multicultural America, but fails to flesh out its Pakistani characters
Published 06 May, 2018 07:05am
Every metropolis seems to have been enshrined into two images.
Published 07 Jan, 2018 01:11pm
Two collections of writing by towering figures of Urdu literature bring to light mostly forgotten short stories
Published 24 Dec, 2017 07:03am
