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COVER STORY: Archipelago of injustices
ON March 21, 2012, Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi woman, was fatally beaten with a tire iron in Southern California.…
INTERVIEW: “There is broad thinking that the US cannot afford to walk away like they’ve done twice” — Riaz Mohammad Khan
Pakistan is an important ally for the US in this region but the relationship is periodically fractured and mired in…
CROSSWORD/INTERVIEW: talkingbooks
Amjad Islam Amjad is a poet and playwright
What are you reading these days?
This last one month I have…
This last one month I have…
FICTION: War that lives on
WAR and history are often written about in such togetherness that they’re almost inseparable halves of the same condemnation of…
NON-FICTION: Who’s who of the Gandhi-Nehru age
GOPALKRISHNA Gandhi, the author of the book Of a Certain Age, has selected 20 personalities belonging to what he calls…
COLUMN: Miraji’s many accomplishments
APART from his position as a leading poet in the modern tradition, Miraji is also known as a devoted translator…
COVER STORY: Notes from the countryside
YOU’D think the job of a book description involves point-blank lying to fool the readers into buying the book. You…
FICTION: Not another 9/11 novel
THE first thing you should know about American Dervish is that it isn’t a 9/11 novel. The book’s title and…
FICTION: From a Pakistani poet, a debut novel
A first novel can be a risky proposition for the reader. Since the author is a first timer, the investment…
INTERVIEW/QUIZ: talkingbooks
Claire Chambers teaches contemporary literatures at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her book, British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers, was published…
FICTION: The secret is in the bees
THE bees of the world are vanishing. They have been vanishing for years. It is probably a good indication of…
The worst of times
The author of Wedding Song, Naguib Mahfouz, and the book’s translator in Urdu, Fahmida Riaz, need no formal introduction. The…
The treasures of Upper Sindh
“This shall be my home. I shall make a garden of this wilderness, live here and die here,” said Brigadier…
COLUMN: Modern theatre in Urdu
SARMAD Sehbai’s play, “Uss Gali Na Jawin”, enacted by Shakeel at the Lahore Arts Council, reminds me of the sporadic…
COVER STORY: Wake-up call or false alarm?
AT a discussion about Ahmed Rashid’s new book at London’s Frontline Club, BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet, who was moderating the…
INTERVIEW: “What we’re saying on Afghanistan is totally meaningless, because we don’t deliver on anything” — Ahmed Rashid
There is independent data that says violence has come down in Pakistan since 2009 in terms of the numbers of…
NON-FICTION: The final days of united Pakistan
IT was the closing month of 1971. The Pakistan Television was facing public protests after telecasting some scenes of our…
FICTION: When countries breakup
Much has been written on East Pakistan, but unfortunately most of it is tilted, depending on the side the author…
CROSSWORD/INTERVIEW: talkingbooks
Zahid Hussain, an award-winning journalist, is a senior editor with Newsline as well as a correspondent for The Times, Newsweek …
NON-FICTION: Too early to sing an elegy
Urdu literature is far from being a spent force, argues Asif Farrukhi
AN emergent trend that is on its way…
EXCERPT: Narrative of the 1857 revolt — a woman’s tale
The following excerpt is taken from the chapter, “The beginning (Aghaz) of Biti Kahani”
Now only the women were left…
COLUMN: One hundred years of the Urdu short story
AFTER the Urdu short story completed a hundred years, a scholar conceived an ambitious project to write, in detail, an…
The Storyteller: Saadat Hasan Manto (May 11, 1912 – January 18, 1955)
May 11, 2012 marks Sadat Hasan Manto’s birth centenary. To celebrate the occasion Books&Authors invited some of the most well-known…
‘Manto saw women the way he saw men’
May 11, 2012 marks Sadat Hasan Manto’s birth centenary. To Celebrate the occasion Books&Authors invited some of the most well-known…
‘How does Manto stand apart from his contemporaries?’
May 11, 2012 marks Sadat Hasan Manto’s birth centenary. To Celebrate the occasion Books&Authors invited some of the most well-known…
‘Manto didn’t have the heart to stay behind in India’
May 11, 2012 marks Sadat Hasan Manto’s birth centenary. To Celebrate the occasion Books&Authors invited some of the most well-known…
‘Society’s biggest critic would have to be progressive’
May 11, 2012 marks Sadat Hasan Manto’s birth centenary. To Celebrate the occasion Books&Authors invited some of the most well-known…
‘How relevant is Manto today?’
May 11, 2012 marks Sadat Hasan Manto’s birth centenary. To Celebrate the occasion Books&Authors invited some of the most well-known…
Literary notes: Intizar Husain discusses realism in Manto
“I accept [my characters] with all their vices, their disease, their abusiveness, their peevishness”
— Saadat Hasan Manto AS literary…
— Saadat Hasan Manto AS literary…
Manto remembered
Contemporaries recall meeting and seeing Manto.
Agha Ameer Hussain, editor of Urdu monthly Sputnik
“Manto Sahib came barefoot to my…
