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The real cost of bottled water
An estimated 15-20pc of Pakistanis use bottled water because of fears of unsafe drinking water supplied in the system.
TRAVEL: CICADAS, CLOUDS AND CAMPSITES
A few kilometres from Abbottabad, Thandiani is a nature-lover and photographer’s delight
ARTSPEAK: THE MANY SIDES OF HUMOUR
Digital networks teem with jokes, satirical videos and memes about everything — from politics to the absurdities of new
EXHIBITION: THE READY-MADE OBJECT
A group show brings forth multiple object-based narratives which can be read beyond their surface appeal
PALETTE: THE FINE LINE
Nine faint red lines discovered at Blombos Cave in South Africa are considered a piece of drawing that is at least
SOCIETY: WHEN MOTHER GOES TO WORK
As more families realise the importance of two incomes to run homes, the need for more day-care facilities for children
TRENDS: INKED IN TO GET UP LOOKING BEAUTIFUL
Pakistani women are increasingly using permanent make-up
SMOTHERING: BEST TOY EVER
Toys are the source of some of the greatest stresses in parents’ lives
EPICURIOUS: AUTUMNAL COMFORT
Cabbages and apples are packed with nutrition and abundantly available, what better time than this to cook some healthy
GARDENING: SMART WAYS TO WATER YOUR GARDEN
Saving water in the garden by using tips and techniques is just as important as saving it in the home
ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI
‘I am being bullied at school’
SMOKERS’ CORNER: SWEEPING IT CLEAN
The optics of cleanliness campaigns have been used throughout modern history by populists
SOCIETY: THE CHILD WITHOUT DREAMS
Like millions of other kids in Pakistan, Shahdad Marri was deprived of education because of abject poverty. Remarkably
X-SQUARE: FRESH BEGINNINGS?
The names being touted for providing PCB its new direction — Misbah, Intikhab and Wasim — have their own merits and
FOOTBALL: THE BATTLE WITHIN
Hajrah Khan, captain of the national women’s football team, shocked her admirers when she recently admitted she was
RED BIRDS
Mohammed Hanif’s third novel is released globally on October 18. Eos presents a worldwide exclusive excerpt from the
CANVAS: ART AS AN IDEA
Aaron and Barbara Levine spent 20 years purchasing art by Marcel Duchamp, the pioneering conceptual artist ...
EXHIBITION: PICTURES OF EXILE
An exhibition in Petit Palais in Paris highlights the hitherto little known history of a group of impressionists’ exile
EXHIBITION: THE PRICE OF WAR
Adeela Suleman meticulously crafts the underlying horrors of a battle in her solo show
HERITAGE: THE EBBING OF MAUJ DARYA
Construction of an underground tunnel for the Orange Line Metro Train in Lahore a few feet away from the shrine of
TRENDS: DIOR NEXT DOOR
Amidst crammed galis, sit hard-working designers, looking for clientele but, sadly, few now show up
FICTION: SONGS OF SILENCE
A new collection of 13 poignant short stories showcases the quietness with which Aamer Hussein portrays turmoil and
COLUMN: THE POETRY OF YASMEEN HAMEED
Yasmeen Hameed has published five collections of poems from 1988 to 2012 and edited anthologies of Pakistani Urdu...
FICTION: THE BIG SLEEP
In a new novel, a young woman attempts to sleep away an entire year to get over her existential ennui
NARRATIVE ARC: WHOSE LANGUAGE IS IT ANYWAY?
Muhammad Hasan Askari has always intrigued me as a formidable scholar, writer and critic. But his conceptualisation...
NON-FICTION: REACHING FOR THE STARS AND FAILING
A fresh and exciting approach to pen portraits attempts to include the milieu of the subjects, but only manages to
FICTION: MURDER, SHE WROTE
Reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s famous murder mystery, this whodunnit is surprising and gratifying
ESSAY: THE PROBLEMS OF COLONIAL MODERNITY
The naiveté of the modernisation project was a direct result of uncritical acceptance of the colonisers’
LITBUZZ
Milkman wins the Man Booker 2018 Northern Irish author Anna Burns has won this year’s Man Booker Prize for her novel
FICTION: A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN
Bina Shah’s novel about a dystopian future paints a fascinating world, rich with detail and intricate in its imaginings
COLUMN: CHINESE ENCOUNTERS
At the age of 31, I read widely in about four languages: English, French, Italian and Spanish. By the age of 36 ...
IN MEMORIAM: THE MAN WHO DIED ONLY ONCE
Nisar Muhammad Khan, who passed away on September 7, will be remembered for his singular contributions to Pakhtun
NARRATIVE ARC: LOSING UMRAO JAAN
Usually, the crassness of politics and power agitates you and the refinement in art and literature soothes. But then...
NON-FICTION: THE EVER-PRESENT GHOSTS OF THE PAST
In a collection of essays, Raza Rumi goes back into a shared history to understand what it means to be a Pakistani in
NON-FICTION: REQUIEM FOR SINDH
A travelogue of great erudition, but also a heartfelt lament about the ecological degradation of the author’s native
NON-FICTION: PATHOLOGIES OF LIBERALISM
A critique of liberalism from a conservative perspective argues that there is an unresolved contradiction within it
BOOKS IN BRIEF
From Stasis to Mobility: Arab Muslim Feminists and Travelling Theory
Saiyma Aslam
The author looks at works by...
NARRATIVE ARC: PUBLISHING AND PROMOTING
Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, our major poet, fiction writer and literary editor from the last century, once recalled meeting ...
FICTION: IMAGINARY HOMELANDS
Fatima Bhutto’s sophomore novel is a tender account of how identity, representation, alienation, faith and desire are
INTERVIEW: ‘THE THINGS I’M MORE DEEPLY DISTURBED BY, I CAN ONLY GET OUT IN FICTION’ — FATIMA BHUTTO
After a spell of five years, Fatima Bhutto is back with her second work of fiction, The Runaways. Set largely in...
FICTION: LOVE AND LONGING IN THE DIASPORA
A collection of short stories that anyone can see themselves in, with Indian American culture humming in the background