Little is known about a distinctly European, colonial-era stone building surrounded by newer homogenous office buildings on Karac
Updated 21 Jul, 2024 10:45am
The battles on and off the pitch during the Uefa European Football Championship 2024 reflect a continent struggling with its own
Published 21 Jul, 2024 07:59am
Rumours are rife that Pakistan will soon implement a draconian form of online censorship, inspired by the Chinese exam
Published 21 Jul, 2024 07:59am
Javaid Mughal’s paintings, apart from being visually arresting, are a much-needed reminder of how technology has socially alienat
Published 21 Jul, 2024 07:59am
People have naturally always formed communities based on shared interests and mutual trust in one geographic space. The internet
Published 21 Jul, 2024 07:59am
Self-styled “liberals" and “progressives" in Pakistan have, for decades, inadvertently advanced causes and agendas that have run contrary to their ideals.
Published 21 Jul, 2024 07:59am
Head to Yuan Tung in Karachi if you are in the mood for some old-school comfort Chinese cuisine
Published 21 Jul, 2024 07:59am
‘I Am Being Forced Into An ‘Exchange Marriage’’
Published 21 Jul, 2024 07:59am
For many, the low-maintenance Snow White, with its unique green and white leaves, is the go-to plant to beautify one’s surroundin
Published 21 Jul, 2024 07:59am
The beating pulse of Muharram is underpinned by the noha , which is more than just a recounting of the events and tragedy of Karbala.
Updated 14 Jul, 2024 09:11pm
Kishore Kumar Khatri’s chalk drawings are not only helping his students in Umerkot grasp difficult concepts, their popularity is
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:27am
An adventure-loving journalist who used to write about mountaineering and interview mountaineers is inspired to climb Africa’s
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:27am
Once the biggest library in Karachi’s Lyari neighbourhood, the Mulla Fazil Hall Library has been operating from a temporary
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:27am
An exhibition in Rouen, France, pays homage to the American-born rebel painter James Whistler
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:27am
The global financial organisation is failing countries like Kenya: why, and what can be done about it?
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:27am
Modi’s vision of building a museum that captures the essence of ‘Bharat’ has stirred up a debate about what decolonialism means
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:27am
Consumer brands often try to capitalise on the prevailing zeitgeist to try and remain relevant in the minds of their target audience.
Updated 14 Jul, 2024 10:40am
Some of the illustrious residents of Cliftonia reveal their secret and not-so-secret antipathies…
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:27am
‘My Mother Doesn’t Let Me Play’
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:27am
Mix dried banana peels in water to give an instant potassium boost to your plant
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:27am
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
