THE DIGITAL SENIORS
As Covid-19 spread across the globe, older individuals found themselves at a disadvantage, but many are quickly playing catch-up.
TRAVEL: PIR CHHATAL’S MYSTICAL FISH
An idyllic small pond near Jhal Magsi teems with fish, preserved through fantastic folklore. But now it’s been discovered by...
SCIENCE: A QUEST TO UNDERSTAND THE KNOWN UNIVERSE
This year’s Nobel Prize winners in physics led the discovery of the presence of a black hole at the centre of our Milky Way...
SOCIETY: A DARK AND UGLY WORLD
A state resting on a weak criminal justice system, such as Pakistan, is prone to be a strong market for child pornography...
KABADDI: TACKLED TO THE GROUND
Despite Pakistan winning the Kabbadi World Cup for the first time this year, kabbadi is a dying sport in Pakistan. Current...
EXHIBITION: THE TURNER EFFECT
Jacquemart André Museum finally succeeds in bringing the legendary artist Joseph Turner’ s works to Paris...
EXHIBITION: SENSE OF EPHEMERALITY
Arif Hussain Khokhar’s exhibition challenges our notions of imperfections, aesthetics and processes...
SMOKERS’ CORNER: BANNING CULTURAL PRODUCTS
The ploy of using moral rationale to ban a cultural product that offended a ruler’s ego was not present before the late 1970s.
EPICURIOUS: NOT YOUR DAILY BREAD
Bread meets chocolate in these delectable, braided buns that pair perfectly with a hot beverage for breakfast, tea or anytime...
ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI
‘I am in love with my teacher. How can I move on?’...
GARDENING: ‘WHY DOES MY DATE PALM DROP ITS FRUIT BEFORE IT IS RIPE?’
All your gardening queries answered here...
MOTHER COURAGE
Eight years on, families of the Baldia factory fire victims say they've only received "half justice".
HEALTH: REACHING THE DISTRESSED
To commemorate World Mental Health Day, Eos looks at community outreach programmes, such as those initiated in Karachi...
SQUASH: COURTING SUCCESS
Former squash great Jansher Khan has joined the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sports Directorate to train young players in Peshawar...
SOCIETY: REVIVING THE PAKHTUN HUJRA
The hujra has long occupied centre-stage in Pakhtun communities for good reason. But busy and technology-driven lives have...
EXHIBITION: LOVERS FROM THE PAST
Muhammad Ali entices his audience with his latest exhibition of anachronistic paintings that have their own stories to tell...
ARTSPEAK: DESTROYING HERITAGE
Destruction due to ignorance or neglect is a wound that doesn’t heal...
SMOKERS’ CORNER: ‘HYBRID REGIMES’ AND THEIR DISCONTENTS
Electoral authoritarianism is a staple in the concept of ‘hybrid regimes’. But even sham elections can create new power centres.
EPICURIOUS: THE FAMOUS GROUSE
Grouse is much appreciated for its delicate but gamey flavour and cooking it is fairly straightforward...
ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI
‘My crush is getting married to someone else’...
GARDENING: SWEET SENSATIONS
Sweet peas are loved for their scent, asymmetry, early season colour and romantic appeal...
NON-FICTION: THE RISE AND FALL OF PASHTO CINEMA
The first authentic account of the Pashto film industry traces its roots from the 1940s and attempts to explain why it later...
COLUMN: MUSINGS ON GHALIB
I’ve been working on Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib for nearly a decade. My original idea was to work on the ghazals...
NON-FICTION: THE OTHER PAKISTAN
An anthology of essays is an eclectic cultural history of sorts of Pakistan, attempting to look at the country beyond the...
ESSAY: THE GLOW OF BURNING BOOKS II
This is the concluding part of an essay on censorship; the first part was carried on August 9...
FICTION: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
A debut novel that shows promise when focusing on the human condition rather than on clichéd themes of drug-running...
BOOKS IN BRIEF
This ‘honour roll’ of some of the most well known personalities associated with the Sindh Madressatul...
NON-FICTION: THE PHOENIX OF PAKISTANI CINEMA
An anthology of essays on Pakistani cinema raises the question: what happens to
a society when its cinema dies?...
LITBUZZ: CALLS TO DROP CHARGES AGAINST BOOKER NOMINEE
Tsitsi Dangarembga has been shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize for her novel This Mournable Body, which...
COLUMN: CLOSING BOOKSHOPS
That sort of rapport between a writer and a bookseller has long vanished as have many of the shops, including the one I knew...
NON-FICTION: CELEBRATING THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BOOK
This year is the 1,000th anniversary of Ferdowsi’s death, the epic poet whose magnificent Shahnama has shaped not only culture
COLUMN: OUR LITERARY POLITICIANS
Everywhere, there are some politicians who take to writing at an opportune time in their careers. They write on...
FICTION: CHOICE DECISIONS
A novel about a society where bodily choices are made for women is set in a strange dystopian world. Or is it?
BOOKS IN BRIEF
A collection of writings on those personalities of Pakistan who had, in Immanuel Kant’s words, “the courage to know”, or emerge
NON-FICTION: WHERE SHAHABNAMA LEFT OFF
A beautifully written Urdu memoir is part personal history of a former bureaucrat and part analysis of Pakistan’s faultlines from
FICTION: OPPOSITES ATTRACT
In a tale that exhibits the familiar trope of love between a middle-class girl and an upper-class boy, Sara...
FICTION: DOING THE RIGHT THING
George Floyd’s death in May sparked global outrage and brought centre stage the prevailing systemic inequalities...
ESSAY: EMPATHY OVER EMPTY GESTURES
The Covid-19 pandemic was initially hailed as ‘the great equaliser.’ But is it really?
LITBUZZ: BOOKER PRIZE 2020 SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
The finalists for this year’s Booker Prize have been announced, with six titles chosen from a longlist of 13 ...
NON-FICTION: THE FORGOTTEN NARRATIVE OF WORLD WAR II
A pioneering and riveting account, of the mostly Muslim Indian soldiers who fought in the Second World War, is a labour of love...
NON-FICTION: THE COUNTRY OF MANY FACES
Declan Walsh’s recollections of Pakistan, despite its personal digressions, offers a rare collage of Pakistan’s most...