The city’s heart of darkness
As crime writing in South Asia catapults forward, Irfan Javed reviews Omar Shahid Hamid's cracking new novel
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Abdullah Hussain and the weary generations
"… three brilliant white seagulls…" Irfan Javed's moving recollection of his last conversations with the late writer
Positively Pakistani
On this independence day Irfan Javed enumerates some things about Pakistan that give us all hope
The notebook of a rebel poetess
Irfan Javed excerpts several anecdotes from Kishwar Naheed's latest non-fiction book
“I learnt to paint for moon-faced beauties”
The libertine painter Tassaduq Sohail's life is a tale of rebellion, lust and unbridled creativity. Irfan Javed talks to him...
The wandering astrologer
In long, meandering chats with Irfan Javed, astrologer Ishaque Noor relives a bygone era of courtesanal hierarchies, street entertainers and...
“I consider monogamy a life sentence”
In this candid interview with Irfan Javed, the legendary Urdu writer Abdullah Hussein discusses his disdain for posterity, Manto's drunkenness...
The year in Urdu
A proliferation of magazines, revelatory non-fiction and greater depth in novel writing were some of the positive takeaways for Urdu...
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States and Markets | The Political Economy Of Punjab Govt’s Free Electricity Initiative
Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz recently announced the...