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Despite the odd entrepreneur or social activist establishing a bookshop or library, the culture of reading is dying...

The death of the distinguished cricketer Waqar Hasan, the last remaining member of Pakistan’s first Test...

A sound understanding of the evolution of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement is a necessary first step for those seeki...

The Lahore Biennale transformed colonial spaces in the city with art that examines colonialism...

Dépaysement, a French word whose literal meaning is ‘to be without a country,’ describes the sense of...

The history of state subsidies for performing Haj is not ‘centuries-old’ as some woud have us believe...

Pickling fruit and vegetables is an ancient way of food preservation that actually increases the nutritional...

‘Why doesn’t my husband trust me?’

All your gardening queries answered here...

The state of Karachi’s parks is perhaps the perfect symbol for Pakistan’s perpetually distressed democracy.

With the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in full bloom, a Pakistani student in Beijing describes the daily routine for...

Pakistan’s boxers have tremendous talent. But talent can only go so far in making them realise their dreams.

The Wahab Jaffer Collection does not just reveal the art that he created and collected over the past 50 years, but...

In recent years, more and more artists globally aspire to undertake artist residencies to boost their career...

Some commentators suspect many of these tomes are still out there.

The prime minister of Cliftonia decides that henceforth all statecraft will be sponsored by the private sector...

‘We differ on a very fundamental matter’

Some organic pesticides and fungicides you can make at home to deal with fruit tree issues...

If Buzdar falls, he will drag his leader with him. And Imran Khan, it seems, understands that only too well.

The cost of road accidents in Pakistan, both in terms of human lives and medical care as well as in terms of...

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains why wealth creation is different from wealth extraction and why inequality...

A debut novel spins a tight story that explores multiple facets of humanity or, occasionally, the lack of it...

A compendium of prose fiction and poetic responses to the most barbaric colonial-era massacre in the Subcontinent...

What has been your takeaway from writing and getting In the Company of Strangers published? A lot of aspiring...

I am presently engrossed in William Dalrymple’s dazzling work The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India...

Nisar Aziz Butt, who passed away on February 7, was a highly erudite and multi-faceted writer in whose mind time...

Malcolm Gladwell takes on what the research tells us about our misperceptions about people’s motivations...

An Urdu translation by Mahmood Alam Siddiqui of Saleena Karim’s 2010 book, Secular Jinnah and Pakistan:

An English translation of an Arabic novel, which won the Man Booker International Prize, is a complex story of...

Written in a clear style and modern idiom, these poems display concerns of one of the most important contemp...

A free-flowing Punjabi memoir that presents us with a micro-historical look into the varied experiences of...

Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s latest is a 13th century detective story that explores the nature of power and myth in a...

The turnout at this year’s festival was significantly lower than last year’s inaugural event, but its significance...

Faiz spoke about prison, chain, lock, fire and scheming political leaders in his very first collection of pre-Pakistan..

I spent a life-changing year in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the 1990s — a visit I have written about a few times for...

The significance of an original collection of Pakistani English poetry lies in its ambition and desire to transcend...

From inter-cultural to intra-cultural orientations, the world owes much to those who have translated works of...

Litterateur Harold Bloom’s last book is a gift that his admirers and critics will relate to with equal respect...

Random House’s chief copy editor lets loose on how to edit and the copy that infuriates him

I approach biographies of my favourite writers with some trepidation, more so when the writer in question has ...