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COVER STORY: Will the real Rahul Gandhi please stand up
What is the formula for political success? There could be as many answers to this question as there are researchers…
NON-FICTION: The man who wrote the novels
BY all accounts, Charles Dickens possessed the kind of vigour that would justify speculation about Faustian deals with Satanic forces.…
NON-FICTION: Anatomy of a marriage
“What can you do with such lovely people cast in such a grand mould when all they want to do …
NON-FICTION: The human side of scholars
While paying tributes to the great learned figures of the past, some people tend to assume that the days of…
INTERVIEW/QUIZ: talkingbooks
Jason Burke is the South Asia correspondent for The Guardian and The Observer newspapers. He is the author of …
FICTION: When the bubble bursts
THERE is an underlying element of Bollywood in P.G. Bhaskar’s Jack Patel’s Dubai Dreams. In true filmi fashion, the novel…
FICTION: Let me tell you about Goa
Following three generations of the Viegas family from the small Goan village of Carmona, Let Me Tell You About Quinta…
LITBUZZ: Literarybuzz
World Book Night 2012 was celebrated in the UK, Ireland, Germany and USA on April 23, which is a symbolic…
COLUMN: From East to West and back
After journeying long in the world of arts and literature, including fifty years of stage and film acting and directing…
COVER STORY: Looking at the past — to understand the present
Some time in the days after 9/11, then US president George W. Bush plaintively asked the asked, “Why do they…
FICTION: From a ‘literary’ novelist, some zombie gore
Zone One’s protagonist, Mark Spitz, recalls watching his father’s favourite nuclear war movies with him as a child, and asking,…
NON-FICTION: What ails America — and how it will survive
Jeffrey D. Sachs, one of America’s best known economists, has spent much of his career helping developing economies. In his…
Interview: talking books
Moniza Alvi’s seven collections of poetry include The Country at My Shoulder, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and the Whitbread…
REVIEWS IN BRIEF: When East & West meet
MARTIN Moir, an academic specialising in modern South Asian history, attempts historical fiction in his new book, Not Exactly Shangri-la.…
REVIEWS IN BRIEF: The question of judiciary
“On March 9, 2007, Mr Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Chief Justice of Pakistan, heard several cases till about 10.30 a.m.…
CONFERENCE: For the love of language
PASHTUN poets, writers, linguists, research scholars and intellectuals put their heads together in Peshawar Nishtar Hall on April 6 and…
COLUMN: Dr Jameel Jalibi and the journey of literature
THE ambitious project of an exhaustive history of Urdu literature, as envisaged by scholar Dr Jameel Jalibi, has progressed slowly…
COVER STORY: The bewildering violence of Partition
ILYAS Chattha’s book, Partition and Locality: Violence, Migration, and Development in Gujranwala and Sialkot, 1947–1961, aims to “further the study…
COMMENT: In defence of Joyce and Wittgenstein
WHEN answering the question, “What is the one book you started but could not finish”, in his Talkingbooks interview (Books&Authors,…
INTERVIEW/QUIZ: talkingbooks
Shaila Abdullah is the author of Saffron Dreams and Beyond the Cayenne Wall
What are you reading these days?
My…
INTERVIEW/QUIZ: The reading challenge
Characters that the Bard created
(1) Shylock is a character symbolising greed. In which play did this character demand his…
(1) Shylock is a character symbolising greed. In which play did this character demand his…
NON-FICTION: As towns change, so do lives
Social scientists have been trying to understand human behaviour patterns for hundreds of years. Factors such as demography, population, migration…
EXCERPT: Tales of horror
The following excerpt is taken from the chapter, “In Village Kharjal”
One winter night I was sleeping with Father in…
The year of Manto
OUR literary circles are expected to celebrate the current year as Manto’s. Of course, the greatness or the importance of…
COVER STORY: Different opinions, different voices: The complexity of Muslim culture and society
IN recent years, there has been a continuing tendency in the West, to regard Muslims as “the alien Other” and…
NON-FICTION: Predicting the end
Francis Fukuyama will always be best known, and mostly misunderstood, for his prophetic work The End of History and The…
FICTION: The evolution of a metropolis
THE prologue to Narcopolis is but one sentence, that runs for seven pages. Ostensibly, this is to create a sense…
Talking Books: Aatish Taseer
Aatish Taseer is the author of Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey Through Islamic Lands (2009), The Temple-Goers (2010) and…
FICTION: How much has America changed?
Long-listed for the Orange Prize, The Submission, is about the politics of grief and how liberal America made mistakes dealing…
FICTION: A concoction of dream and reality
FOR the oldest time, Agha Nasir has remained associated with the electronic media of the country. He has held senior…
