Diary entries from a former actor reflect on how the desire to conform to the norms of the entertainment industry allowed her to
Published 12 May, 2024 07:38am
Zahra Afzal runs the Women’s Football Academy in Hazara Town, Quetta. What made her get into such an apparently thankless job?
Published 12 May, 2024 07:38am
Climate change helps explain why ocean temperatures keep rising, but it doesn’t paint the full picture. And the effects of warme
Published 12 May, 2024 07:38am
Poetry, calligraphy and spirituality intertwine in Fazil Hussain Mousavi’s artwork
Published 12 May, 2024 07:38am
A collective identity makes us feel as if we are a part of something bigger and more important than just our own lives
Published 12 May, 2024 07:38am
After his ouster, Imran Khan was convinced that the establishment had ‘betrayed’ him, and the May 9-10 protests last year were an
Published 12 May, 2024 07:38am
A candy created during the Ottoman Sultanate continues to charm people centuries later
Published 12 May, 2024 07:38am
‘My Wife Thinks I’m Unfaithful ’
Published 12 May, 2024 07:38am
Bolting is a natural process in the plant life cycle, but it can be brought on earlier than usual because of environmental factors
Published 12 May, 2024 07:38am
With the majority of Pakistan’s population below the age of 30, the young will invariably influence the country’s future trajectory.
Published 05 May, 2024 06:53am
With most Western governments refusing to even acknowledge how the holocaust in Gaza has particularly impacted children and women
Published 05 May, 2024 06:53am
With singlehood on the rise around the world, what does the latest research tell us about being single and happiness?
Published 05 May, 2024 06:53am
Young Pakistani squash players are displaying the kind of talent and drive that could see the country once again home to world champions in the future. But the lack of sponsorships is holding them back from their dreams.
Updated 05 May, 2024 11:18am
A young Christian woman from a poor Hindu village in Sindh is determined to provide the benefits of education to the children of
Published 05 May, 2024 06:53am
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Saba Khan explore the human, ecological and social landscape of the River Indus through the eyes of the
Published 05 May, 2024 06:53am
Imagined pasts and invented histories have long been used by states to propound a certain narrative while denying the existence of opposing views.
Updated 05 May, 2024 09:51am
Good news on the economic front makes Butterfly reminisce about the good old days
Published 05 May, 2024 06:53am
‘I Hurt My Bestie and Am Miserable’
Published 05 May, 2024 06:53am
One of the benefits of cultivating your own growing space is getting fresh harvest from the plant to the plate within a few hours…
Published 05 May, 2024 06:53am
Adopting effective policies could help Pakistan not only mitigate impacts of climate change but also attract investment and expand trade horizons.
Updated 28 Apr, 2024 10:48am
Paul Auster, a great American writer of sophistication, innovation and intellect passed away on April 30
Published 12 May, 2024 10:12am
I first ran into Paul Auster completely by chance at Liberty Books in Karachi’s Clifton area in 2003. This was...
Published 12 May, 2024 10:04am
An academic book providing a comparative look at pre- and post-Partition era writing in Urdu literature is an extremely useful...
Published 12 May, 2024 10:01am
“This tale is steeped in the colours of the East and its connection to the conventions of Urdu literature is so deep,” writes...
Published 12 May, 2024 09:56am
The book is a poetic intellectual exploration of Shaikh Ayaz’s selected verses that have been translated from Sindhi into English
Published 12 May, 2024 09:50am
Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Ghazal Cosmopolitan is, in her own words, “part love letter to Urdu… and part manual for the craft of ghazal
Published 05 May, 2024 08:13am
A compilation of Urdu letters written by Japanese academics and students to a Pakistani Urdu scholar is an enriching read for...
Published 05 May, 2024 08:05am
Actor, producer, director, author and voice-over artist Henry Winkler’s memoir is most poignant when he deals with the curse of
Published 05 May, 2024 07:46am
The Bangladeshi-American author Rumaan Alam wrote Leave the World Behind just before the Covid-19 pandemic. The novel was...
Published 05 May, 2024 07:42am
I.A. Rehman’s posthumously published memoirs narrate his early life and the making of one of the greatest human rights activists
Updated 09 May, 2024 03:37pm
A gripping historical drama centring around a young girl and a London bookshop involved in a Cold War espionage network offers a
Published 28 Apr, 2024 10:29am
A recent collection of poetry and poetic prose presents one with a different interpretive angle and nuance of feeling on each...
Published 28 Apr, 2024 10:04am
The names Passchendaele, the Somme and Mametz Wood stand as grim sentinels, forever bound to the unimaginable ...
Published 28 Apr, 2024 09:59am
The author of the book is a petroleum engineer by profession, who has worked in Pakistan and the Middle East for more than 36
Published 28 Apr, 2024 09:50am
Syed Nomanul Haq’s Urdu translation of Mansur al-Hallaj’s Kitab al-Tawasin captures the beauty and elegance of the original...
Published 21 Apr, 2024 10:58am
A French journalist pens a novel about Pakistan which, surprisingly for a Western writer, presents a sympathetic view of the...
Published 21 Apr, 2024 10:51am
A book by a retired Pakistani admiral presents a holistic study of the multifarious challenges of maritime security and offers...
Published 21 Apr, 2024 10:46am
In 2015, it was my honour to be invited by the education advocacy campaign Alif Ailaan to teach storytelling to...
Published 21 Apr, 2024 10:39am
A book provides valuable historic background to the development of Beijing-Islamabad ties but its amassing of ‘facts’ about the...
Published 14 Apr, 2024 07:46am
An autobiography of well-known Pakistani social activist Ansar Burney can serve to inspirea new generation of Pakistanis
Published 14 Apr, 2024 07:42am
