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Sunday, December 16, 2012
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COVER STORY: Tale of the Tile: The Ceramic Traditions of Pakistan
Reviewed by Zain Mustafa
IF we consider Pakistan’s contemporary design identity relevant to its history as a nation, its earlier…
COLUMN: The silent past by Kamran Asdar Ali
The legal writer, Paul Finkelman, in a recent op-ed piece in The New York Times (December 1, 2012) discusses Thomas…
The Fifth Global Urdu Conference: Urdu and peace in South Asia
It was worth waiting an hour for the session on an issue the two nations of India and Pakistan have…
The Fifth Global Urdu Conference: Urdu in the global village
By Humair Ishtiaq
Once again, the old question of whether a masterpiece should be local or global in its context…
The Fifth Global Urdu Conference: Manto – forever green
MANTO graced the world a fortnight before Miraji did, and he outlived the poet by a little over six years.…
The Fifth Global Urdu Conference: The many layers to Miraji
The Fifth Global Urdu Conference: Urdu and newspeak
THE discussion meant to focus on the connection between literature and media and how much the latter has contributed to…
The Fifth Global Urdu Conference: Honoured amid chaos
WHEN Zia Mohyeddin weaves his magic one can’t help being mesmerised. One can even die of the sudden exhilaration… the…
The Fifth Global Urdu Conference: In memoriam
There was unfortunate irony about the words uttered at the beginning of the session to honour those literary stalwarts who…
COLUMN: The poet overlooked — Miraji
By Intizar Husain
“Rashid, Faiz and Miraji seemed to be forming a trinity of modern Urdu poetry in their times.…
The Fifth Global Urdu Conference: In good humour
One of the sessions the organisers of the Urdu conference deserve a pat on the back for organising was on…
