Tag: book

For most women functioning in traditional households, this book could be triggering. Ayesha Hussain’s debut novel lays out in plain ...

Salman Rushdie’s 16th novel chronicles the birth, rise, and the downfall of the empire known as Vijaynagar or, “Victory City”. ...

“What I say is: a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless ...

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 ...

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

1. 'An older woman who liked macho horses treated me like a young stallion' 2. 'What was the universe trying ...

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

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

The birth of Pakistan saw the 1948 Kashmir conflict and since then, the country has been in a state of ...

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

Unfortunately, the discussion on maritime domain is often ignored in the academia and national discourse of Pakistan. However, the world ...

Decades after a fatwa on his head, Salman Rushdie was stabbed not by those whose sentiments were hurt with the ...

In March 1987, I sat for my final year Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) exams. Pakistan Studies was the last exam. ...

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 ...

Oh boy, so much political drama going on in the country right now. It's almost impossible to find a television ...

Every afternoon after school, Shahid Zaidi would end up at his father’s studio Zaidis Photographers, and seek the coolness of ...

Maverick, unpredictable, volatile, albeit a visionary and cold-bloodedly authoritarian who struck gold at an early age in the anachronistically medieval ...

While social scientists generally complain about the paucity of good social science literature coming out of Pakistan in the last ...

As an old proverb goes ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’. So is obscenity. In 2018, the Kerala ...

“Benazir Bhutto has been killed, and we want you live on BBC television straight away, please.” It was early morning ...

The two novels written by Haroon Khalid Akhtar are deceptive. They are anything but simple reads. As they say, never ...

On Thursday, the CSBE released the updated curriculum for the 2022-2023 academic year, which contained several unusual deductions. Most notably, ...

Arshad Waheed’s latest novel in English language, ‘Other Days’, is an eventful story from Pakistan, weaved around two woeful events ...