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THE VERDICT

Eos brings you two extracts from a recently published novel

Osman Haneef Updated 28 Feb, 2021 09:40am

CITIES: WHO MAKES PLANNING DECISIONS FOR US ?

The recent amendments to Lahore Development Authority’s private housing scheme rules appear to be support...

Fizzah Sajjad | Azeem Alam Khan Updated 28 Feb, 2021 09:52am

GOLF: PRODIGY RISING

Omar Khalid recently became the youngest Pakistani golfer to win a national title. Eos sat down with the 16-year-old for an...

Ijaz Chaudhry Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:35am

SOCIETY: THE BURNT OUT ENDS OF SMOKY DAYS

The Covid-19 related lockdowns affected even the illegal trade in and usage of cannabis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

Wasim Sajjad Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:35am

EXHIBITION: TRANSIENT TALES

A group exhibition showcases a proposed shift from tradition, imagines new meanings and narratives...

Samar F. Zia Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:35am

DISCOURSE: THE NEW SUBLIME

Zohreen Murtaza explores how the tradition of landscape painting is being revisited by artists to comment on important present...

From InpaperMagazine Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:35am

SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE ANGRY VOTER

Those who reach a position of power through angry votes often don’t need to do anything.

Nadeem F. Paracha Updated 28 Feb, 2021 08:34am

EPICURIOUS: CHICKEN FOR THOSE WHO DON’T WANT IT

This crispy, mouthwatering vegan ‘chicken’ could fool you into thinking it’s the real deal...

Jessica Dias Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:35am

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘I want to settle professionally before getting married’...

From InpaperMagazine Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:35am

GARDENING: ‘SHOULD I PLANT BAMBOO IN LARKANA?’

All your gardening queries answered here...

Zahrah Nasir Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:35am

ORANGE IS THE COLOUR OF CHANGE

Lahore’s newly inaugurated Orange Line Metro rail could be the beginning of a transformation of the city

Gulraiz Khan Updated 21 Feb, 2021 06:06pm

HISTORY: THE FAQIR AND THE OUTSIDER

How Sadequain captured the essence of French Nobel laureate Albert Camus’s most famous novel in the 1960s and brought Paris ...

Sibtain Naqvi Published 21 Feb, 2021 07:03am

CRICKET: THE SIX IS IN

The sixth edition of the Pakistan Super League may have fewer spectators in stadia, but will have plenty of excitement.

Khalid H. Khan Updated 21 Feb, 2021 01:21pm

SOCIETY: THE DYING ART OF CONVERSATION

Today’s fast-paced lifestyles, coupled with the constant presence of mobile phones and social media, have led us to lose inter...

Mahein Kazi Published 21 Feb, 2021 07:03am

ARTSPEAK: OVERTURNING DOMINANT CULTURES

Dominant cultures are defined either as the majority culture or that imposed by a powerful minority, such as in ...

Durriya Kazi Published 21 Feb, 2021 07:03am

ART MARKET: ARTISTIC VALUES

Museums and galleries may be closed all over the world but moneymaking through art has not come to a halt...

Zafar Masud Published 21 Feb, 2021 07:03am

SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE EVOLUTION OF SECULARISM

‘Crisis of secularism’ bemoaned by some scholars fails to acknowledge secularism has evolved in a highly complex manner.

Nadeem F. Paracha Updated 21 Feb, 2021 08:24am

NON-FICTION: SURVIVING THE HOLOCAUST

Seventy five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, English readers get an extraordinary account of life in a concentration...

Rizwana Naqvi Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:36am

COLUMN: THE INIMITABLE ZAHID DAR

On his way to the seafront, he found a bookshop. Instinctively, he entered and picked up a book by Jean Paul Sartre. “He though...

Harris Khalique Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:36am

FESTIVAL: PARTITION, HORSES AND ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

The LLF, as always, had a diverse and eclectic array of topics under discussion this year...

Haneen Rafi Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:36am

FESTIVAL: HOME AND IDENTITY IN A VIRTUAL WORLD

The Lahore Literary Festival went entirely online in line with the ongoing pandemic’s restrictions. It also often reflected...

Irfan Aslam Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:36am

NON-FICTION: FINDING HIS CENTRE

Barack Obama reflects on his and America’s journey during his presidential tenure, in the first part of a two-volume memoir...

Hannan R. Hussain Updated 22 Feb, 2021 09:01am

COLUMN: GHALIB'S METAPHORICAL SPORT

Seeking a metaphor to describe Ghalib, we must recognise that he himself is its superb craftsman...

Syed Nomanul Haq Updated 21 Feb, 2021 12:51pm

NON-FICTION: IN SEARCH OF ANSWERS

Elif Shafak’s long essay in the shape of a booklet, ponders the big issues of the times, which trouble people around the world...

Riaz Hussain Ujjan Published 21 Feb, 2021 07:03am

FICTION: LOOKING COLONIALISM IN THE EYE

An important Australian novel, set in the gruesome world of Sydney in the 1700s, attempts to come to terms with the monstros...

Sahar Shehryar Published 21 Feb, 2021 07:03am

STYLE: PASTEL PINK BLINGY SEA

Fashion Pakistan Week’s valiant effort in making a comeback despite the coronavirus pandemic proved that nothing much has

Maliha Rehman Published 28 Feb, 2021 08:03am

SOUNDCHECK: HOT AND COLD

Shamoon Ismail’s Cold World is about the push-and-pull of a lost relationship that still lives on in the mind

Band Baji Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:57am

THE GRAPEVINE

The 19-year-old Pakistani girl Dananeer Mobeen, whose video Pawri Ho Rahi Hai has become crazy viral, is now an international

PYT Updated 01 Mar, 2021 04:34am

STREAMING: MONSTER MONOTONY

With little exposition or backstory, Monster Hunter is all about the action, screaming, gunfire and explosions

Mohammad Kamran Jawaid Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:35am

THE TUBE

After one episode too many about Joya (Sohai Ali Abro) and Hamza’s (Farhan Saeed) guilt trip about running away from their

Fouzia Nasir Ahmad Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:35am

CINEMASCOPE: THE SOUND OF SILENCE

Riz Ahmed’s quietly powerful Sound of Metal was one of the few cinematic highlights in an otherwise bleak year at the movies

Fahad Naveed Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:17am

CINEMASCOPE: THE MUTATION OF MISERY

Koozhangal, which won the top prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, unfolds as a day in the life of a village, where

Tanul Thakur Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:17am

THE ICON INTERVIEW: ‘I WANT MY MUSIC TO BE EVERYWHERE’

Azaan Sami Khan understands his privilege as someone raised and pampered by Pakistan’s entertainment industry. With his upcoming

Mohammad Kamran Jawaid Published 21 Feb, 2021 07:04am

FATF: a close miss

Pakistan has to report back to FATF with full compliance on all 27 items after which it will send technical team for verification.

Khaleeq Kiani Updated 01 Mar, 2021 08:55am

Adding momentum to recovery

The business community fears political unrest may unravel the nascent economic recovery after Covid-19.

Afshan Subohi Updated 01 Mar, 2021 09:03am

Unbundling the banking tech

All major players offer an overlapping suite of products and solutions, but each has developed a niche of sorts.

Mutaher Khan Updated 01 Mar, 2021 09:06am

Handling trade deficit is tricky

Big and sustainable gains in exports are impossible to attain without achieving economies of scale in export industries.

Mohiuddin Aazim Updated 01 Mar, 2021 09:19am

Faisalabad — stuck in a fossilised groove

Despite proximity of several agricultural institutions, productivity averages of district are below that of provincial numbers.

Ahmad Fraz Khan Updated 01 Mar, 2021 09:17am

The roll-over spoiler

‘Margin trading and deliverable contracts were typical instruments of pump-and-dump’

Dilawar Hussain Published 01 Mar, 2021 07:24am

Empowering the non-profit sector

A study by the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy estimates that the Pakistani diaspora in the UK donates £1.25 billion a year

Aneela Sajjad Published 01 Mar, 2021 07:24am

NFC’s perennial lack of consensus

If a federal project is designed to benefit only one province, the beneficiary could share its cost.

Jawaid Bokhari Updated 01 Mar, 2021 09:15am

Haste makes waste!

“Wake up Ali, you are getting late for breakfast. Come on, you should have freshened up by now,” mum yelled. Ali wakes up every

Benazir Raz soomro Published 27 Feb, 2021 07:28am

Mailbox

This is with reference to the cover story, “The colours in our eyes” by Rizwana Naqvi (YW, February 13). I liked the article very

From InpaperMagazine Published 27 Feb, 2021 07:23am

Poet's Corner

From InpaperMagazine Published 27 Feb, 2021 07:18am

Story time: Readers are leaders

Sasha was in eighth grade and loved to read books. She was very intelligent and an open-minded person. She even used...

Laiba Khan Published 27 Feb, 2021 07:17am

Website review: Free stories!

Who doesn’t want to listen or read a story, especially when it’s beautifully illustrated? Perhaps no one. Though...

Asif Ali Published 27 Feb, 2021 07:13am

Book review: Marvel Spider-Man: An Origin Story

Who is Spider-Man? Was he always the friendly neighbourhood superhero or did he try his hand elsewhere before...

Omair Alavi Published 27 Feb, 2021 07:07am

Cook-it-yourself

Fresh strawberries are everywhere these days, something we didn’t see as much a few years ago. Well, which better way is there

Aamnah Arshad Published 27 Feb, 2021 06:59am

Advice: Don’t waste your time!

There is no one in the world who does not want to succeed. Everyone dreams big, but not everyone’s dreams come ...

Ayesha Ilyas Published 27 Feb, 2021 06:52am