Mushtaq Soofi
When I was working for Pakistan Television, a colleague, who was a senior cameraman, narrated an anecdote over a cup...
Published 16 Sep, 2024 07:07am
Immigrants, legal and illegal, from the former colonies have been trickling into western societies for decades. The...
Published 02 Sep, 2024 07:46am
Karachi has been a wonderful city. It still is. A stunning mosaic of cultural groups, it is a microcosm of...
Published 22 Jul, 2024 07:52am
Dhanni ke Sufi Shu’ara (Dhanni’s Sufi poets) is Ali Khan’s book published by Warq Publications, Chakwal. The...
Published 15 Jul, 2024 08:51am
Caste consciousness permeates our cultural practices. It’s rooted in our individual and social make-up to the...
Published 10 Jun, 2024 07:33am
Asif Khan published Damodar’s text generally known as Heer Damodar in 1986. Four years later in 1990 Najam Hosain...
Published 13 May, 2024 08:23am
Naveed Shahzad is a well-known poet, research scholar and literary critic having more than a score of books to his...
Published 29 Apr, 2024 07:56am
Which is older, poetry or storytelling? It seems both are equally old as there is no evidential certainty as to ...
Published 08 Apr, 2024 07:03am
A sage from our subcontinent says: “There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.” Does it seem...
Published 18 Mar, 2024 07:44am
Allow me to share what I saw last week which was, by the way, nothing unusual. But it’s worth reporting. I drove...
Updated 11 Mar, 2024 09:16am
Neelum Ahmad Basheer is a well-known Urdu writer and has a visible presence on the literary landscape. She has a...
Published 05 Feb, 2024 07:59am
Most of the people who are in their 60s and 70s fondly reminisce about the times of their childhood and youth, the...
Published 29 Jan, 2024 07:30am
That you cannot step into a river twice is well known. It simply means that conditions of life constantly undergo...
Published 22 Jan, 2024 07:00am
They have killed their language. Not just that. They celebrate it to show unabashedly to the world that it rightly...
Published 08 Jan, 2024 07:10am
Modern notion of nationalism or nation state came to the colonies with the arrival of Western occupation forces...
Published 06 Nov, 2023 05:18am
‘Writing is not something natural’ may seem a weird assertion or a sweeping statement. But it’s not. Writing ...
Published 16 Oct, 2023 06:59am
LET me trot out an old cliché: people do not leave their homes unless they feel compelled to do so. But there can ...
Published 31 Jul, 2023 09:18am
Language though not purely natural seems to be natural like eating and breathing in the normal course of things. But...
Updated 17 Apr, 2023 08:54am
Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed is a reputable historian and scholar who has done some serious research on the history of the...
Published 06 Mar, 2023 07:11am
When our planet was sparsely populated and human beings were in small number they faced a dreadful prospect of...
Published 12 Dec, 2022 07:11am
