Book Review

Views and convictions centered on menstruation differ across societies, but remain an unthinkable topic to talk about in the Global...

The United States is the most powerful country on Earth today, and perhaps in human history. So much of US...

It’s been 21 years since al-Qaeda terrorists carried out 9/11. To what extent can that be traced back to a...

The title story of Julien’s short story collection Derrida Haramda! introduces us to Shahid Wirk (or, as he is lovingly...

Farah Bashir was born and raised in Kashmir. She was a former photojournalist with Reuters and currently works as a...

In the Bronze Age, societies around the globe were dominated by men. Even today, in much of the world, that...

Arif Azad’s new book Thinkers, Dreamers and Doers is an enlightening collection of his articles published in national and international...

The smooth ochre sands of the Thar reflect in Marvi’s lambent golden eyes; she knows not yet of the distant...

“Please forgive me. My illness won today. Please look after each other, the animals, and global poor for me. All...

Broadly speaking, Pakistani historiography has tended to focus mainly on the country’s high politics, but a few have penned the...

The novel Rohzin, or The Melancholy of the Soul, by Rahman Abbas, features Mumbai (previously Bombay) as the protagonist where...

The first line of Mohsin Hamid’s latest novel The Last White Man foretells a dystopian universe and, in a way,...

Ambassador Dinkar Srivastava is an Indian career diplomat with a long involvement in representing the Indian point of view and...

From reluctant initial steps towards finding its own idiom as well as a politics that picks itself up and graduates...

It is sad to watch a respected name in the banking world try to pull a rabbit out of a...

Over five decades have passed since East Pakistan seceded, after terrible carnage and a bruising civil war, marking the period...

Just a few days back, I read a fascinating review of a recently published book on development in the Financial...

Dead Man’s Prisoner is a fascinating novel by a former provincial bureaucrat of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. It addresses the despicable...

It has never been easy to manage a demanding career while also prioritising self and family. And for many women,...

My Life and Times is an autobiography of legendary Pashtun nationalist leader Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai (1907-73), commonly known as...

It is rare to come across a writer who is so devoted to the written word that she cares far...

Landscapes of the Jihad by eminent Oxford University thinker Professor Faisal Devji explores the features that Al-Qaeda and other strands...

For those of us who live in Karachi, we are definitely acquainted with and have spotted Peerzada Salman at a...

We consider here an important work by a Pakistani American scholar on the Mujadidi Sufi networks that spread after the...

It is a daunting task to draw a circle around Ejaz Rahim’s latest book of English poetry. Gardens of Secrets...

Pakistan has been juggling the roles of a progressive Islamic republic along with the dual image of a nation that...