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...

Many moons ago, I received Intimations of Ghalib, a slim volume of translations of the timeless verse by the great...

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...

Here’s a script rooted in indigenous feminism: the supremely talented Samiya Mumtaz, portraying Zarsanga, takes back her agency when she...

Storytelling is an art. However, when Sarmad Khoosat lends himself to it, it also becomes a science. From the selection...

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

Showing signs of exhaustion and complacency during its last few seasons, Coke Studio (CS) returned this year looking refreshed, rejuvenated and...

A few days ago, I got a recommendation from YouTube for a show called Mere Humsafar. From the promo itself,...

Soon after midnight on May 2, 2011, when the US Navy Seals took out Osama bin Laden, they also discovered...

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...