As the soda market slumps in the West, a bourgeoning market for sugary drinks has emerged in Asia, increasing health risks like...
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
Recently, an American lab demonstrated that fusion could ostensibly be harnessed as a source of power in the future. But there...
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
What is the future of the sport of parkour in Pakistan? One of its most ardent practitioners provides the low-down…
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
Pakistan’s coastal fishing community is among the most impacted by the effects of climate change. But their traditional methods...
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
An exhibition at the Koel Gallery in Karachi paid homage to the oldest living creatures on the planet
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
Farrukh Adnan tries to recreate the lost history of his hometown
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
For decades, women in Muslim-majority nations have had their rights curtailed under the guise of religious edicts justifying trad…
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
National Hope & Icon Nazir Jr pens a heartfelt appeal to the Western establishment for help against the local Cliftonian establi…
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
‘I have stopped talking to others’
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
While the calendula is renowned for its beauty, this flowering plant also has many gardening and medicinal benefits
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
Pakistan’s society weddings are back after the lull of Covid-induced scaling down in the past couple of years.
Updated 22 Jan, 2023 09:15am
His grandfather was the richest man in the world, but the titular ‘last Nizam of Hyderabad’ ran through that fortune in...
Published 22 Jan, 2023 08:45am
Although Pakistan is facing many challenges on the economic front, youth unemployment might be one of the most dangerous ones...
Published 22 Jan, 2023 08:44am
Was it just winter gloom that hit the Babar Azam XI? Or will the Men in Green be shivering during the summer too?
Updated 22 Jan, 2023 11:56am
One of the few remaining masters of the ghizhek in Pakistan, Ustad Rehmatullah Baig hopes to ensure the survival of this...
Published 22 Jan, 2023 08:44am
Through vividly painted gardens, two sisters depict beautiful, fantastical worlds born out of darkness and an existential threa...
Published 22 Jan, 2023 08:44am
Natural and economic disasters, wars, revolutions and genocides have dotted the timeline of history leading to the...
Published 22 Jan, 2023 08:44am
The recently concluded local bodies polls in Sindh have left a lot of egg on the face of political pollsters who had predicted...
Updated 22 Jan, 2023 10:12am
The old world charm of Capri Restaurant and the now defunct Capri Cinema in Gulberg evoke fond memories of an era long gone,...
Updated 22 Jan, 2023 08:33am
‘I feel like a total failure’
Published 22 Jan, 2023 08:50am
A tribute to the late journalist and activist Ahfazur Rahman casts a wide net, encompassing his struggles for media ind...
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
A former Indian diplomat, academic, historian and analyst attempts to make sense of the dynamics that have made the Middle Eas...
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
A collection of short stories examines girlhood and womanhood with tenderness, originality and genuine wit
Published 29 Jan, 2023 06:23am
Experts tell us there are at least 200 versions of the text in more than 50 languages. However, standard accounts of the fable’...
Updated 30 Jan, 2023 10:03am
A much-praised novel by Katie Kitamura does not disappoint, its writing restrained, understated and subtle, yet packing a big
Published 22 Jan, 2023 08:58am
A debut novel takes on the hapless fate of streetwalkers who are exploited by the very law enforcers who should be protecting them
Published 22 Jan, 2023 08:51am
A political scientist deconstructs the work of the Council of Islamic Ideology and how it fits into Pakistan’s ‘Islamisation’
Published 22 Jan, 2023 08:43am
There was a time — not very long ago — when students, labour, journalists and a representative segment of...
Published 22 Jan, 2023 08:30am
In November 2020, former president of the United States, Barack Obama, released his memoir A Promised Land. According to...
Published 22 Jan, 2023 08:23am
A book on the Royal Indian Navy mutiny of 1946 is a compellingly good read for connoisseurs of South Asian history in general, and
Published 15 Jan, 2023 07:11am
An Urdu translation of one of the masterpieces of mountaineering and exploration work is as much a reader’s delight as the...
Published 15 Jan, 2023 07:04am
Prelude: I have been trying to write my lived experience of a heart attack for over a month now. But words didn’t flow.
Published 15 Jan, 2023 06:59am
So many of us — women, especially — would nod in agreement at a grandmother admonishing a young girl to tie back her hair at...
Published 15 Jan, 2023 06:56am
A new book traces the stories of the Sherpas in Nepal, who have been providing invaluable assistance to international mountaine...
Updated 18 Jan, 2023 05:17pm
Huma Abedin’s autobiography can be split into a retelling of the writer’s personal and professional lives. The former is heart...
Published 08 Jan, 2023 07:42am
A new novel is an attention-grabbing examination of the subtext of H.G. Wells’s classic The Island of Dr Moreau and a shapeshi...
Published 08 Jan, 2023 07:42am
The repetition of the theme over centuries reveals it to be a major preoccupation of our literature.
Published 08 Jan, 2023 07:42am
An excellent biography of scholar and freedom fighter Bahadur Yar Jang, who achieved so much in the short 39 years that nature...
Published 01 Jan, 2023 08:59am
A debut novel with a memorable storyline offers a poignant study of the secrets women keep to survive and the perils that could...
Published 01 Jan, 2023 08:54am
Merging the personal and the public, this highly readable book will appeal to serious academics and to shrine culture’s die-har...
Published 01 Jan, 2023 08:50am
