Media personality Mehdi Hasan delves into the history of the art of persuasion through history and brings his own experiences to
Published 22 Jul, 2024 08:08am
A collection of personal essays by a diaspora Kashmiri explores the intersections of tradition and modernity, familial...
Published 22 Jul, 2024 08:04am
In the 1990s, I first met Rana Abdul Rehman. His body was found a few days ago in a canal near Faisalabad.
Published 22 Jul, 2024 07:59am
Like Ghalib and Faiz before him, Sarmad Sehbai is a master of visual image construction in Urdu poetry and his new collection is
Updated 14 Jul, 2024 12:26pm
A book examines India’s fraught relationship with Occupied Jammu and Kashmir but also expands discussion of the dynamics of
Published 14 Jul, 2024 09:06am
A pioneering Pakistani book provides self-care toolkits to foster emotional intelligence and mental well-being among adolescents
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:57am
One Sunday morning in Karachi — I was eight — I heard my mother telling my father about a film she’d seen that Sunday morning,...
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:51am
A sophomore novel is a poignant tale of three generations of a Pakistani immigrant family in the UK and about psychological wounds
Published 07 Jul, 2024 07:53am
A slim collection of parliamentarian Mohsin Dawar’s articles and speeches seeks to shine a spotlight on the travails being faced
Published 07 Jul, 2024 07:49am
A second book compiling articles mostly written for BBC Urdu challenges conventional narratives and presents perspectives that...
Published 07 Jul, 2024 07:46am
Since March 2020, I have been making a concerted effort to learn Urdu. Recently, I took GCSE exams in this beautiful, expressive
Published 07 Jul, 2024 07:42am
Broadcaster Mishal Husain’s memoir about her multi-rooted, multilingual and multi-religious family reads like a novel set against
Published 30 Jun, 2024 08:47am
A science fiction novelette imagines a funny scenario where the Pakistan cricket team is surreptitiously led at a World Cup by an
Published 30 Jun, 2024 08:37am
A selection of essays on diverse topics written for a blog incorporates engagements with the blog readers in an attempt to...
Published 30 Jun, 2024 08:29am
Ustad Amanat Ali Khan, the celebrated scion of the Patiala gharana [clan] of our classical music, did wonders when he took to
Published 30 Jun, 2024 08:25am
The memoirs of one of the most respected journalists and editors in the Pakistan documents 80 years in Mahmood Shaam’s life and...
Published 23 Jun, 2024 10:00am
A novel provides a gripping exploration of the complexities of war in Yemen, and captures the raw experiences of humanitarian...
Published 23 Jun, 2024 09:54am
An anthology of Qurratulain Hyder’s selected works translated in English is a good introduction to the doyenne of Urdu literature
Published 23 Jun, 2024 09:47am
In this last column in the series on the Art of Storytelling, I will write about my most recent adventure in storytelling.
Updated 23 Jun, 2024 10:48am
The Romance Writers of America, once the world’s largest and most powerful authors’ association, filed for bankruptcy on May 30,
Published 16 Jun, 2024 07:04am
A new book comprehensively traces the phenomena of Bazball, which has helped make Test cricket exciting again
Published 16 Jun, 2024 07:04am
A young adult novella set in a fictional college tackles contemporary hot-button issues such as social media bullying, sexual...
Published 16 Jun, 2024 07:04am
Based on her PhD dissertation, a book by a legal scholar surveys competition legislation across South Asia and provides insights
Published 16 Jun, 2024 07:04am
Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot detective series is being continued by a new author, who seems to have risen handsomely to the
Published 09 Jun, 2024 09:23am
The author of Pearls and Shards, Iftikhar Malik, is an eminent academic. Now Professor Emeritus at Bath Spa University, he taught
Published 09 Jun, 2024 09:05am
Brig (retd) A. R. Siddiqi’s recollections about city life in Delhi and the advent of cinema culture before Partition transport the
Updated 10 Jun, 2024 12:37pm
What an actor, director, broadcaster and conversationalist Talat Hussain was, truly iconic in so many ways. Just the right pauses
Published 09 Jun, 2024 08:57am
Seldom has a book of poems in English resonated with me as this slender volume, Yardstick of Life. Perhaps the...
Published 02 Jun, 2024 08:09am
A fresh translation of an Urdu novel by the late Altaf Fatima is lucid enough to be read on its own merits
Published 02 Jun, 2024 08:09am
