Dawn Books And Authors
By Intizar Husain I came, I saw and I conquered. But enough is enough. I am going back home. That is what celebrated...
Published 03 Feb, 2013 02:56am
Reviewed by Qasim A. Moini FOR many Pakistanis, India is a strange, unknown place, if one discounts the plastic ...
Published 03 Feb, 2013 02:56am
By Rajini Vaidyanathan Amir Hamza for a modern audience IT is inevitable, perhaps, that when talking about adventure...
Published 03 Feb, 2013 02:56am
By Mehr Afshan Farooqi The writer is assistant professor of Urdu and South Asian literature at the University of...
Published 03 Feb, 2013 02:56am
Reviewed by Hasan H. Karrar For readers with an affinity for big books — literally and figuratively — Debt: The ...
Published 03 Feb, 2013 02:56am
Reviewed by Sher Alam Shinwari IT is widely known that Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan, fondly remembered by his followers as...
Published 03 Feb, 2013 02:56am
Reviewed by Razeshta Sethna A story of love and identity, Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner than Skin is set among the...
Published 27 Jan, 2013 03:43am
Uzma Aslam Khan is the author of four novels, Trespassing, The Geometry of God, Nobel Rot and, most recently, ...
Published 27 Jan, 2013 03:43am
The writer teaches postcolonial literature at Leeds Metropolitan University and is the author of British Muslim...
Published 27 Jan, 2013 03:43am
Reviewed by Asif Farrukhi DEATH does not seem to have been much of a deterrent for Jose Saramago, who even today...
Published 27 Jan, 2013 03:43am
Reviewed by Mamun Adil Gabbar Singh’s signature line “Kitnay aadmi thay?” from Sholay, the evergreen 1975 classic,...
Published 27 Jan, 2013 03:42am
Reviewed by Taimur Sabih AMALGAMATE mystique, distinctive character progression and immense knowledge of music and...
Published 27 Jan, 2013 03:42am
By Intizar Husain WHILE tracing modernism back in time, we concentrate on the developments in the post-1857 era...
Published 27 Jan, 2013 03:42am
Reviewed by Sarah Ansari “There are three ways in which we use memory: through amnesia, nostalgia and selection. The...
Published 20 Jan, 2013 03:04am
Reviewed by Jakob Steiner IT takes few words to describe the region along the Afghan-Pakistan border in...
Published 20 Jan, 2013 03:04am
Zulfikar Ghose is a poet, novelist and literary critic. Apart from criticism and poetry, he has also penned many...
Published 20 Jan, 2013 03:04am
Reviewed by Mahvesh Murad ONLY seven novels have ever been nominated for thre grand slam of genre prizes — the...
Published 20 Jan, 2013 03:04am
Reviewed by Mohsin Siddiqui Only one thing is really certain in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: its author, Robin...
Published 20 Jan, 2013 03:03am
Reviewed by Asif Farrukhi NOT too long ago, literary journals used to introduce their readers to the best in ...
Published 20 Jan, 2013 03:03am
By Intizar Husain ONE of the most important elements of the oral tradition in Urdu is the mushaira. It has also...
Published 20 Jan, 2013 03:03am
