On the writer’s use of coded language to present his contemporary reality
Updated 03 May, 2016 12:48am
REGRETTABLY, as with Hasan Manzar, but perhaps to a greater degree, the conspicuous absence of Ikramullah from...
Published 16 Nov, 2014 06:20am
By my lights, dim though they may be, the story had neither smut nor objectionable political content nor sex.
Updated 21 Sep, 2014 08:13am
BECAUSE of his wide ranging and intimate knowledge of national life in its diversity of locale and language, Hasan...
Published 28 Jul, 2014 12:34pm
The Progressives were more or less a spent force by the mid-1950s, or at least had lost their earlier chokehold on...
Published 25 May, 2014 07:36am
IF memory serves me right, it was 1963. Like many young adults of my generation, I too had — as Manto’s idiotic...
Published 06 Apr, 2014 07:49am
Manzar’s mimetic strategy is pointed away from abstraction, allegorical meaning ... it is grounded in stark realism
Published 26 Jan, 2014 07:40am
To say I enjoyed Akhtar Husain Ra’epuri’s Gard-e-Raah (1984) would be an understatement
Published 02 Dec, 2013 12:09pm
The percentage of literacy in Pakistan is deplorably low and the share of Urdu in that still less
Published 29 Sep, 2013 07:30am
The present, 34 years too late but rather euphoric hullabaloo over Intizar Husain's Basti is perhaps the appropriate...
Published 04 Aug, 2013 02:53pm
