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Sunday, June 3, 2012
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COVER STORY: The playwright and the man
THERE isn’t actually a huge amount of information about William Shakespeare, and for a man who is widely considered to…
THEATRE REVIEW: Shakespeare at the Globe — in Urdu
Pakistan may have already put in its best performance at the London Olympics, even though the games are still several…
FICTION: When dreams meet reality
The struggle of life in new India’s lower-middle-classes allows the fragile to collapse
Rupa Bajwa’s second novel came quite a…
NON-FICTION: Constitutional adventures
THE 18th Amendment will go down in Pakistan’s history as the most important piece of constitutional legislation enacted by the…
INTERVIEW/QUIZ: talkingbooks
Shobhaa De is an Indian columnist and novelist with multiple titles to her credit
What are you reading these days?…
FICTION: Treasure island — the next generation
IT is a sad, sad fact that there is an entire generation who thinks all pirate stories stem from Johnny…
LITERAY BUZZ: Ondaatje prize 2012
Rahul Bhattacharya’s debut novel, The Sly Company of People Who Care, won the Ondaatje prize for 2012.
Nominated for a…
EXCERPT: The non-violent revolution
The following except is taken from the article “Ibn Khaldun and The Arab Spring” by Jerry Ravetz
The moral element…
COLUMN: History of Indian publishing
Thanks to the BCC Urdu Service we have found a writer in Raza Ali Abidi. It was on behalf of…
