At the Wagah border, the daily flag-lowering ceremony assumes all the drama of warlike preparation. But the indifference...

Hindutva organisations’ intimidation has led to stand-up artist Munawar Faruqui’s shows being cancelled again and again...

From schools to departments, netball is flourishing in Pakistan. But government funding and sponsorship is needed to help...

Flea markets or lunda bazaars used to be tucked away in older corners of the city and often carried a stigma for middle class...

Nazia Ejaz takes an introspective journey and reflects on how the pandemic has reshaped the ways in which we connect with our...

A retrospective of Linda McCartney’s photographs reminds viewers of her direct sense of connection and intimacy with her subj...

PTI has slipped into an identity crisis, it has no clue what it stands for anymore.

There’s something rustic but elegant about this easy-to-make savoury tart...

‘I have a mother from hell’...

Red flowers combined with green and green-blue foliage can brighten up grey days, warm up winter, and complement the summer sun...

Saad Shafqat’s sophomore novel Rivals is a fast-paced potboiler set, like his debut novel, in a milieu he knows well as a...

Some influencers who use social media to share their challenges as differently abled persons are effectively creating awaren...

A little known story about a saint’s shrine on Abdullah Haroon Road was documented as an urban legend by a British education...

Two sisters, still only 20 and 21, have shaken up Pakistan’s women’s golf with their astonishing achievements. They now have...

A philanthropic project in a low-income area in Karachi is changing the role and perception of the mosque as a community...

Photographer Maria Waseem and miniaturist Waseem Ahmed see eye to eye about our neglected heritage sites...

The greatest legacy of the Mughal Empire is its contribution to the culture of South Asia, with exquisite paintings,...

Government is just one aspect of the state.

Start this Christmas season with a bang by making your very own village of gingerbread houses...

All your gardening queries answered here...

There isn’t only love for a person; there is your love for your everyday things. I love nature above all. It attracts me more...

George Saunders’s latest book, about the craft of writing, is a peek into what a classroom helmed by the award-winning writer...

A debut novel, about childhood trauma and how it can change us and continue to shape us as adults, makes for some voyeuristic...

Arif Mahmood’s handsome book of photographs taken at Sufi shrines over 32 years is not simply an ethnographic documentation...

Mustafa Akyol’s latest book is another open invitation to critically examine the popular Islamic discourse about a value that...

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world’s largest book fair and this year was also the first physical book fair since the...

A compilation of essays on feminism in Urdu is a welcome development, but could have been better thought through...

Regular readers will know I’ve been thinking about pandemic literature since Covid-19 went global in early 2020. A...

Soon after his five-year labour of love and determination — his book Once Upon a Time in Murree — was published,...

Murree of yore, both colonial and postcolonial, comes alive in the pages of this showstopper of a coffee table book,...

A British-Pakistani poet’s satirical epic is fine poetry delivered through playful lyrical flourishes woven with astute...

In these times of death, disease, depression and sorrow, we have lost many literary stalwarts, from Shamsur Rahman...

The review of Javed Jabbar’s book “But Prime Minister...” by Safiya Aftab, published in Books and Authors on...

A debut novel weaves together a picture of denizens of Karachi who have had enough of being pushed around and who decide to...

A former diplomat-turned-wanderer attempts to unearth the soul of places he visits by connecting them to writers and artists...

An excellent anthology of writers muses on what it means to be displaced from one’s origins and to be Sindhi outside in the...

What is the Urdu for ‘fiddle dee dee’, or the English for ‘Sarra rara rara’? Are those words really English...

The winner of this year’s Zeenat Haroon Rashid (ZHR) Writing Prize for Women is Alia Ahmed for her short story...

Benazir Bhutto during her first tenure as prime minister at the PTV headquarters, Islamabad, in 1988 with PTV’s...

With good and bad feudals, a love triangle and nods to other hot-button contemporary issues, this novel could very well be...