By Chishty Mujahid
Published 08 Mar, 2015 06:58am
IN an age dominated by ‘religious terror’, when so many kill in the name of God, it can be difficult for the...
Published 08 Mar, 2015 06:58am
THIS year’s LLF paid a great deal of attention to what cartoonist-journalist Joe Sacco calls “the seams of...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
By SABA IJAZ INDIA, USA, China and Bangladesh — these are the four countries which remain the centre of most...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
LATE Mulla Wahidi was counted among the few grand old men of pre-Partition Delhi. In 1947, after Partition, he...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
By Muhammad Hassan Haider
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
THE city is a contested space, drawn and redrawn by its denizens; and the tension that emerges out of these...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
THIS time of the year is literary festival season, and cricket season, and following close on the heels of the...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
ON comparing this year’s LLF from the previous years, one thing stands out in prominence. This year, there were a...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
“You can tell [a story] in a dead and lifeless way or you can tell it as a story of human beings interacting with...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
By Saba Ijaz
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
WHEN Naseeruddin Shah comes to town, and the LLF extends you an open invitation to come and hear him speak at the...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
In the Indian Subcontinent, the last quarter was a main watershed in the history of British colonisation.
Published 23 Feb, 2015 12:16pm
Speaking of art in Pakistan is akin to discussing philosophical concepts.
Published 23 Feb, 2015 12:16pm
An Isolated Incident is the first novel by US-based writer, essayist, literary critic and book reviewer, Soniah Kamal.
Published 23 Feb, 2015 12:16pm
Zari Zoon’s is a world torn asunder by tragedy on an inconceivable scale; by a barbaric, deliberate human act.
Published 23 Feb, 2015 12:10pm
Where literary fiction meanders on, graphic novels bring the party to the reader.
Published 23 Feb, 2015 12:05pm
Zulfikar Ghose is a poet, novelist and literary critic. Apart from criticism and poetry, he has also penned many novels.
Updated 02 Mar, 2015 04:07pm
Howard Jacobson's latest novel J won over the critics again and was shortlisted for Man Booker Prize.
Published 23 Feb, 2015 11:56am
THE art sessions hosted by ArtNow, carried out in parallel with the KLF, provided much insight into the need for...
Published 15 Feb, 2015 07:17am
THE KLF moved this year in newer directions in a legitimate attempt to keep itself relevant. Social media and even...
Published 15 Feb, 2015 07:17am
I HAVE just returned from Karachi after attending its sixth literary festival, the KLF. Growing gradually year by...
Published 15 Feb, 2015 07:17am
AT the commencement of this year’s Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) on the evening of Feb 6, Indian writer...
Published 15 Feb, 2015 07:17am
"I don’t write with an audience in mind. If I have a story to tell, I just narrate it."
Published 15 Feb, 2015 07:17am
Different sessions on films and TV explored the middle-ground for artistic expression and profit.
Updated 15 Feb, 2015 10:49am
THIS year’s KLF, along with the usual chaos and wonder, offered an abundance of sessions focusing on the state of...
Published 15 Feb, 2015 07:17am
AT the inauguration ceremony of the sixth annual KLF, noted academic and drama critic, Framji Minwalla, conveyed the...
Published 15 Feb, 2015 07:17am
THE sessions with Zehra Nigah and Kishwar Naheed had as many similarities as they had differences. For one thing,...
Published 15 Feb, 2015 07:17am
Sanjay Iyer is a Bangalore-based actor, writer and a cultural activist.
Updated 15 Feb, 2015 10:45am
THIS Changes Everything is an accessible, powerful, and timely contribution to the public discourse on climate ...
Published 08 Feb, 2015 06:51am
IN one of the many inconsequential literary sittings, where mostly inexperienced Urdu poets and writers present ...
Published 08 Feb, 2015 06:51am
YOU are deterred from reading the book when you realise it is about the 1971 war. The ignominy of the defeat and the...
Updated 22 Feb, 2015 12:56am
I’M just going to say it — Margaret Atwood can’t really go wrong. With a career spanning 50-odd years and with...
Published 08 Feb, 2015 06:51am
FOR many Hindi film buffs, the 1950s and 1960s are considered the golden age of Hindi cinema; a time when some of ...
Published 08 Feb, 2015 06:51am
THE fiery collection of Urdu short stories titled Angaray is now regarded as the starting point of the Progressive...
Published 08 Feb, 2015 06:51am
By Rishi Majumder
Published 01 Feb, 2015 06:14am
TARAR, travels and travails go together. They have been doing that for almost half a century now, producing a horde...
Published 01 Feb, 2015 06:14am
THE late recognition of Majeed Amjad as a poet has served him well. He belonged to the period of the 1930s and 1940s...
Published 01 Feb, 2015 06:14am
DR Ayesha Jalal is widely recognised, both nationally and internationally, as a pre-eminent historian for South Asia...
Published 01 Feb, 2015 06:14am
IN the reception room of a doctor’s office that I visit twice a year there is a shelf filled with novels donated ...
Published 01 Feb, 2015 06:14am
By RISHI MAJUMDER
Published 01 Feb, 2015 06:14am
"Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on...
Published 25 Jan, 2015 07:43am
: A tribute to Begum Akhtar
Published 25 Jan, 2015 07:43am
IF she’s not that kind of girl, then what kind of girl is she?At 28, Lena Dunham is the kind of girl who allegedly...
Published 25 Jan, 2015 07:43am
ELIF Shafak pays homage to the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan in her new multi-layered novel The Architect’s...
Published 25 Jan, 2015 07:43am
FAR away from the sights and sounds of big cities, removed from the cacophony of literature festivals and with no...
Published 25 Jan, 2015 07:43am
DEAN of Social Sciences and Arts at Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Dr Yousuf Khushk, and chairperson of the...
Published 25 Jan, 2015 07:43am
Professor Halil Toker, head of Urdu Language and Literature Chair, Istanbul University, also attended the conference...
Published 25 Jan, 2015 07:43am
IN the latest issue of Me’yar, the research journal of the Urdu department of the International Islamic...
Published 25 Jan, 2015 07:43am
Reviewed by Sameen Amer
Updated 04 Jul, 2015 08:37pm
IN recent months we have had memoirs by two Indian actors par excellence. The first was by Dilip Kumar, The ...
Published 18 Jan, 2015 07:19am
‘WHAT I Know For Sure’ is the name of Oprah Winfrey’s monthly column published in her magazine, O. The...
Published 18 Jan, 2015 07:19am
The following excerpt is taken from the chapter ‘Women’s rights and entitlements to land in South Asia’
Published 18 Jan, 2015 07:19am
The Annual of Urdu Studies (AUS), a literary journal published under the editorship of Professor Muhammad Umar Memon...
Published 18 Jan, 2015 07:19am
IN one of the opening scenes of Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece, Shatranj kay Khilari, the camera pans out to depict ...
Published 18 Jan, 2015 07:19am
FOR this column, my first of 2015, I was planning to see in the new year with an upbeat piece about the history and...
Published 18 Jan, 2015 07:19am
PAKISTAN’S counterterrorism policy and its objectives continue to lack clarity as the civilian government ...
Published 11 Jan, 2015 06:52am
THE interesting phenomenon of the linguistic and literary culture of Urdu that I am going to talk about here, and...
Published 11 Jan, 2015 06:52am
THE British came to the subcontinent with the mindset of introducing the culture of state governance by law in a ...
Published 11 Jan, 2015 06:52am
AH, Dubai. The land where everything is bigger, better, shinier and newer. Where the answer to any problem is to...
Published 11 Jan, 2015 06:52am
A YOUNG soldier “born in war, raised in war” is caught in the madness, fear and horror of the mid-17th century...
Published 11 Jan, 2015 06:52am
THIS column may be read as a continuation of the one published last week, which dealt with the writings of three...
Published 11 Jan, 2015 06:52am
THE August 11 speech by Mohammad Ali Jinnah is one of the most quoted and interpreted pieces of history in Pakistan...
Published 04 Jan, 2015 06:23am
LAST week I was on a short visit to Delhi at the invitation of the Ghalib Institute. The occasion was the...
Published 04 Jan, 2015 06:23am
FROM the Nuskha-e Hamidiyya; composed before 1821:
The script of the...
Published 04 Jan, 2015 06:23am
WRITING in the 1960s and 1970s, the Marxist sociologist Hamza Alavi produced a seminal account of what he called the...
Published 04 Jan, 2015 06:23am
Reviewed by Sameen Amer
Updated 04 Jul, 2015 08:44pm
TOBIAS Hill’s latest novel, What was Promised, takes us to the post-World War II London. Three immigrant families...
Published 04 Jan, 2015 06:23am
WHEN the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture was released this year there was talk about the explosive...
Published 28 Dec, 2014 06:46am
By Raza Naeem
Published 28 Dec, 2014 06:46am
As 2014 concludes, Books and Authors takes a look at some of the significant books, writers and trends of the past...
Published 28 Dec, 2014 06:46am
Reviewed by Seher Naveed
Published 28 Dec, 2014 06:46am
THEY say that Majeed Amjad, the Jhang-born poet who lived in Sahiwal, was a recluse; he shunned social life and had...
Updated 30 Dec, 2014 01:22pm
Fill up the empty spaces as Hasan ki Soorat-e-Haal is here
Published 28 Dec, 2014 06:46am
THE volumes of Pakistani English fiction I’ve accumulated and carted between continents over the last 12 months ...
Published 28 Dec, 2014 06:46am
Reviewed by Bilal Tanweer
Published 21 Dec, 2014 06:46am
AS December days become shorter and darker, I find it hard to believe that just four weeks ago at this time I was on...
Published 21 Dec, 2014 06:46am
WHEN Dr Salome Zajadacz-Hastenrath wrote her masterful book Chaukhandi Gräber in 1978, one had thought that was the...
Updated 22 Dec, 2014 11:45am
THE Bunker Diary is 16-year-old Linus’ diary, written in an underground bunker where he has been trapped along ...
Published 21 Dec, 2014 06:46am
Reviewed by Fareeha Rafique
Published 21 Dec, 2014 06:46am
WE have seen a number of books on the massive cross-migration of population on communal lines as a result of riots ...
Updated 21 Dec, 2014 07:22pm
MIRZA Muhammad Hadi Ruswa is famous for one of the earliest novels of Urdu, Umrao Jan Ada. It is based on the...
Published 21 Dec, 2014 06:46am
CAITLIN Moran’s latest book, How to Build a Girl, is the story of 14-year-old Johanna Morrigan from a family ...
Published 14 Dec, 2014 06:39am
IF ever there were a time to not judge a book by its cover, it would be during the longlisting of novels for the Man...
Published 14 Dec, 2014 06:39am
HERMITS have their own world, their own sense of perception and expression, and, indeed, their own interpretation of...
Published 14 Dec, 2014 06:39am
The following excerpt is taken from the chapter, ‘Human and civil rights of marginalised sections’
Published 14 Dec, 2014 06:39am
AS the nature and goals of terrorism change, dialogue or negotiation with terror groups such as the self-styled...
Published 14 Dec, 2014 06:39am
THE Bāng-e Darā (Call of the Bell) of Iqbal has given us a simple, cute poem called ‘A Cow and a Goat,’ a poem...
Published 14 Dec, 2014 06:39am
THOUGH inequalities, across countries as well as within them, are large, on average people living today are much...
Published 07 Dec, 2014 07:09am
TWO women travel to the same point on earth from opposite directions and almost 30 years apart, their journeys, ...
Published 07 Dec, 2014 07:09am
WHILE a lot has been written about Amitabh Bachchan, there is a dearth of material on the man whose throne he...
Published 07 Dec, 2014 07:09am
RUMMAGING through books, old and new, arranged unsystematically in my bookshelf, I came across a thin volume titled...
Published 07 Dec, 2014 07:09am
Reviewed by Waqar Zaidi
Published 07 Dec, 2014 07:09am
WHEN he was translating St-John Perse’s poem Anabase, T. S. Eliot wrote to the French poet to say that he...
Published 07 Dec, 2014 07:09am
Reviewed by Sameen Amer
Updated 04 Jul, 2015 08:47pm
MYANMAR has been in and out of the news since 1962 when its army dismissed the civilian government. Among the ...
Published 01 Dec, 2014 03:54pm
DISTINGUISHED critic Dr Anwar Ahmad has come out with a novel idea. He says that “we stand in need of some common...
Published 01 Dec, 2014 03:54pm
THE success of Bina Shah’s previous novels has depended largely on their fast-paced, high-stakes plots, ...
Published 01 Dec, 2014 03:54pm
ON the morning of Oct 13, 1970 the body of the former CSP officer and famous poet, Syed Mustafa Zaidi, was found at...
Published 01 Dec, 2014 03:54pm
