Books

Imagining the past is no mean feat. Especially if it is the remote past. Even more so if it is...

In Pakistan, as in much of the Muslim world, the Ottoman Emperors are idolised, and often portrayed as God’s gift...

After reading his book, in all sincerity I came to the conclusion that Dr Izhar Hashmi himself is a Sufi...

I used to be invited by the Staff College at Quetta to give a talk on the evolution of warfare,...

Athar Tahir’s new book is categorised as a novel, but it can be called other things besides. It can be...

Journalist and author Anuradha Bhasin has broken the uneasy silence that has prevailed in Jammu and Kashmir for the past...

Pothohar is located in the middle of the country, encompassing all the districts that lie between the Margalla Hills and...

It was quite a surprising yet pleasant feel when I read the translation of Gurdial Singh’s novel Adh Chahnni Raat...

Yesterday, with the collaboration of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) and The National Book Foundation (NBF), the launch ceremony...

Sometimes I wonder that if I were to be teleported to the time when some historical event was in progress,...

When studying African literature, this quotation from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart sticks out in my mind: “When they came,...

Recently, the 225th birth anniversary of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, the greatest of classical modern Urdu poets, was celebrated in...

Although D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) lived in the period commonly designated as modernist, he is not usually considered a typical...

Dr. Tariq Rahman, Dean at the School of Education, Beacon House National University Lahore, is a prolific writer. No wonder,...

There are books for which you invent a reaction for obvious reasons and thus they are boring and leaden, and...

Some inhabitants of the women’s refuge were rebellious teenagers, others claimed to be wives of the Taliban, but most had...

Many people who had contributed to the arts, politics and culture of South Asian have passed away this year. Among...

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes was published in 1984. The book is hard to categorise in any one genre. Ostensibly...

John Butt is an Englishman who arrived in Pakistan in the 1970s, working and living in the Pakhtun regions. John...

Don DeLillo is one of the major writers from the USA who, through their writings, depicted the postmodern condition in...

Dur e Aziz Amna’s book succeeds on many counts, its beautiful prose, its readability and most importantly her distinct, strong...

Marie-Henri Beyle, better known as Stendhal, was a celebrated 19th-century French writer who is said to have had over a...

Spirits Rebellious by Kahlil Gibran is a marvelous historical fiction novella about the close relationship between religious people and capitalists...

The Pakistani cultural heritage is known to be very diverse, and its essential elements are folk legacies and tangible symbols....

Although an unconventional read, I was surprised at the ambitions and imaginative force depicted by Shehan Karunatilaka – the float...

The famed Rohilla clans were mainly drawn from Pashtun tribes. They migrated from their barren surroundings in the Hindukush and,...