The memoirs of Salman Faruqui, regarded often as one of Pakistan’s ‘super-bureaucrats’ till his retirement, shed light on many...
Published 04 Aug, 2024 09:16am
An English translation of a Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai novella puts an end to the general amnesia about the worth and significance
Published 04 Aug, 2024 09:11am
An illustrated and translated version of Allama Iqbal’s Payaam-i-Mashriq opens up the great poet’s Persian work even for the...
Published 04 Aug, 2024 09:08am
It is perplexing that Muhammad Husain Azad (1830-1910), author of the scintillating, so-called ‘first history of Urdu poetry’,
Updated 05 Aug, 2024 05:14pm
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, a Sri Lankan novel reads like a devastating and unputdownable memoir of a woman doctor...
Published 28 Jul, 2024 08:37am
A play about campus politics shines a light on how conflicts are resolved by the various political parties active among the...
Published 28 Jul, 2024 08:32am
A book by one of world’s leading clinical microbiologists is part memoir and part history lesson in infectious diseases and their
Published 28 Jul, 2024 08:23am
About a decade ago, when I was living in Karachi, I started thinking about how a lightweight, well-integrated public library model
Published 28 Jul, 2024 08:17am
Winner of the Asif Farrukhi Ilm-o-Agahi Award 2024, an Urdu novel about complex family dynamics explores the edgier psychology of
Published 22 Jul, 2024 08:13am
Media personality Mehdi Hasan delves into the history of the art of persuasion through history and brings his own experiences to
Published 22 Jul, 2024 08:08am
A collection of personal essays by a diaspora Kashmiri explores the intersections of tradition and modernity, familial...
Published 22 Jul, 2024 08:04am
In the 1990s, I first met Rana Abdul Rehman. His body was found a few days ago in a canal near Faisalabad.
Published 22 Jul, 2024 07:59am
Like Ghalib and Faiz before him, Sarmad Sehbai is a master of visual image construction in Urdu poetry and his new collection is
Updated 14 Jul, 2024 12:26pm
A book examines India’s fraught relationship with Occupied Jammu and Kashmir but also expands discussion of the dynamics of
Published 14 Jul, 2024 09:06am
A pioneering Pakistani book provides self-care toolkits to foster emotional intelligence and mental well-being among adolescents
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:57am
One Sunday morning in Karachi — I was eight — I heard my mother telling my father about a film she’d seen that Sunday morning,...
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:51am
A sophomore novel is a poignant tale of three generations of a Pakistani immigrant family in the UK and about psychological wounds
Published 07 Jul, 2024 07:53am
A slim collection of parliamentarian Mohsin Dawar’s articles and speeches seeks to shine a spotlight on the travails being faced
Published 07 Jul, 2024 07:49am
A second book compiling articles mostly written for BBC Urdu challenges conventional narratives and presents perspectives that...
Published 07 Jul, 2024 07:46am
Since March 2020, I have been making a concerted effort to learn Urdu. Recently, I took GCSE exams in this beautiful, expressive
Published 07 Jul, 2024 07:42am
Broadcaster Mishal Husain’s memoir about her multi-rooted, multilingual and multi-religious family reads like a novel set against
Published 30 Jun, 2024 08:47am
A science fiction novelette imagines a funny scenario where the Pakistan cricket team is surreptitiously led at a World Cup by an
Published 30 Jun, 2024 08:37am
A selection of essays on diverse topics written for a blog incorporates engagements with the blog readers in an attempt to...
Published 30 Jun, 2024 08:29am
Ustad Amanat Ali Khan, the celebrated scion of the Patiala gharana [clan] of our classical music, did wonders when he took to
Published 30 Jun, 2024 08:25am
The memoirs of one of the most respected journalists and editors in the Pakistan documents 80 years in Mahmood Shaam’s life and...
Published 23 Jun, 2024 10:00am
A novel provides a gripping exploration of the complexities of war in Yemen, and captures the raw experiences of humanitarian...
Published 23 Jun, 2024 09:54am
An anthology of Qurratulain Hyder’s selected works translated in English is a good introduction to the doyenne of Urdu literature
Published 23 Jun, 2024 09:47am
In this last column in the series on the Art of Storytelling, I will write about my most recent adventure in storytelling.
Updated 23 Jun, 2024 10:48am
The Romance Writers of America, once the world’s largest and most powerful authors’ association, filed for bankruptcy on May 30,
Published 16 Jun, 2024 07:04am
