The sharing of an article laying out a Pakistani perspective on the US elections leads to accusations of insensitivity by a white
Updated 05 Apr, 2021 03:30am
Asad Zaman has been a club waiter and a ball-picker on tennis courts. But by virtue of a consuming passion for tennis, hard work
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:29am
Women travelling without male companions in Pakistan obviously have to consider the issue of safety. But how much of the wariness
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:29am
A fierce battle over a famed Pissarro painting inflames the art world
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:29am
If we probe deeper into any phenomena — astronomy, the cycle of life, mathematics — we arrive at the concept of...
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:29am
Pragmatic centrism and the need to remain a bridge between Sindh’s electorate and the economic and political fruits of federalism
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:29am
Each morsel of this delicious soup will make you go nuts over it!
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:29am
‘How Do I Tell My Father I Want To Get Married?’
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:29am
Beautifying your home with plants has been scientifically proven to relieve stress, ease tension, help banish depression
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:29am
As the NED Engineering University in Karachi turns 100, an academic fondly looks back at the history of engineering
Updated 28 Mar, 2021 01:31pm
Thousands of ordinary Pakistani women are breaking traditional beliefs about what women should be like by openly sharing their
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:28am
The national cricket team is touring South Africa for three ODIs and four T20 matches followed by another three T20s and two tests
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:28am
Electronic voting machines can have numerous benefits but are no panacea for electoral fraud. In fact, they may be more vulnerable
Updated 28 Mar, 2021 01:54pm
Adeela Suleman’s show references historic Turkish mercenaries to reaffirm the artist’s stance on war, terror and uncontrolled
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:28am
Four artists present metaphorical portraits of their native homelands
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:28am
Why do some nations refer to their countries as their fatherland and some as their motherland?
Updated 28 Mar, 2021 08:42am
As if things were not strange enough in the Land of the Pure, Pakistan became one big Zoom meeting of senility
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:28am
‘How can I quit overthinking?’
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:28am
All your gardening queries are answered here
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:28am
There are few slow news days in Pakistan, but with hotly contested senate elections, a hurried vote of confidence, ‘spy’ cameras
Published 21 Mar, 2021 08:21am
The 12th Karachi Literature Festival was a digital event with audiences forced to take part only from their homes. But it still
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:57am
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi recovered the poetic Urdu genre from colonial dismissal, and for that we are ever grateful
Updated 04 Apr, 2021 04:36pm
Often, when I’m bored with the books I’ve been reading or with the enforced solitude of lockdown, I return to my...
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:45am
The Zeenat Haroon Rashid (ZHR) Writing Prize for Women, now in its third year, is accepting submissions for the 2021...
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:45am
Nuanced discussions about the changing landscapes of global politics and domestic social dynamics marked many of the sessions at
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:45am
A work of creative non-fiction presents a gritty and frank portrayal of criminal life in the suburbs, written by a talented writer
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:28am
The world has been struggling under travel bans, lockdowns and limits on freedom for the last year because of the...
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:28am
In her collection of poetry, reflections and prose, the writer — an advocate for women’s empowerment, children’s rights and peace
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:28am
Victoria Schofield’s latest book is less a critically analysed biography of Benazir Bhutto, and more a celebration of a long
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:28am
The publishing of an Iftikhar Arif collection of poems often becomes a momentous literary occasion. His latest is no less...
Published 21 Mar, 2021 07:08am
An American sociologist examines indigenous Pakistani resistance to violent extremism through the arts, religious teachin...
Published 21 Mar, 2021 07:08am
A debut novel is full of sparkling prose and fast-paced action, but also carries a measure of predictability...
Published 21 Mar, 2021 07:08am
In Karachi, the Sindh Culture Department and the Arts Council of Pakistan recently organised a national conference ...
Published 21 Mar, 2021 07:08am
Eos speaks to the author of The Khan about a desi crime syndicate in modern-day Britain
Published 14 Mar, 2021 06:57am
A Kashmir-born British writer’s latest book, like his past four, is a lyrical, multi-layered exploration of his dual inheritance
Published 14 Mar, 2021 06:57am
‘Composing a good sher [verse] in the short metre merits a certificate of perfection (kamaal ki daleel) in the...
Published 14 Mar, 2021 06:57am
A gripping debut novel seems like The Godfather set in Bradford, but is more than just a crime thriller. It is also a searing
Published 14 Mar, 2021 06:57am
A monograph on the writers and readers of popular digest fiction presents a first scholarly study of a woefully under-explored...
Published 07 Mar, 2021 06:55am
A Pakistani sci-fi novel imagines an inter-galactic war between good and evil being played out on the streets of Pakistan...
Published 07 Mar, 2021 06:55am
A scholarly Western study of God and His attributes, as delineated in the Quran and Hadith, is a surprisingly accessible read...
Published 07 Mar, 2021 06:55am
