Literature

Stories of the True is a stellar collection of stories by the great Tamil writer Jeyamohan, who is known to...

Before he became a novelist, Osman Haneef worked as a tech entrepreneur, strategy consultant and diplomatic adviser. He was selected...

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

The strip of land between India and Pakistan is called the Wagah-Attari border. This is No Man’s Land. On either...

There is a fascinating episode in Anna Karenina, featuring two upper class Russian women, who are shown having a curious...

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,...

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

Letter_Rutgers Academics from a wide variety of backgrounds, in a letter addressed to the Chancellor at Rutgers University (Newark, NJ)...

Those who forget history are condemned to relive it. It is interesting to see how one can learn so much...

Sara Suleri Goodyear, nee Sara Suleri, one of four daughters born to Pakistan Times editor and journalist Z. A. Suleri,...

The second edition of Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival will be held digitally on the 31st of March and the...

A few months ago, I came across a publishing house that had just released Ephemera by Peerzada Salman as an...

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

Terrorists armed with nuclear weapons are the bad actors in this novel. The dramatisation is so compelling that the novel...

The details of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s literary activities would merit an entire book. For fear of length, an extremely brief discussion...

The Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women has announced that the award for 2021 goes to writer Alia Ahmed...

It was great to read a few days ago that the Lahore Arts Council is planning to celebrate the 2019...

Punjab has a rich literary tradition in Sufi poetry. The Punjabi language has a uniquely candid way to express the...

Whether in the form of colonialism or interaction with an individual from a contrasting cultural background, foreign influence undeniably leaves...

Widely considered to be the father of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun – born 140 years ago today – was...

In today’s fast-paced world where everyone seems to be more intertwined than ever, and where news spreads like fire, making...

In 1947, as the British left the Indian Subcontinent, having divided it into two countries, many Indians and Pakistanis couldn’t...

Hamen khabar hai ke hum hain charagh-e-akhir-e-shab Hamare baad andhera nahi ujala hai (We know that we are the lamp...

It has been discerned for centuries that the bond between philosophy and literature is unshakable and unflagging. Each subject matter...

It is standard fare to read Shakespeare at high school or so I thought – but these days high school...