China Cultural Center in Pakistan launches “Online Chinese Culture Talk” lecture series
The China Cultural Center in Pakistan falls under Ministry of Tourism and Culture Beijing, Government of China and is headed ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Tag: Literature
Memoir| When I Spent A Glorious Summer At Cambridge University
Dr Akbar Ahmed will be writing his memoirs for TFT about his eventful life and multiple pursuits. This is the ...
Digitising Pakistan’s Folk Wisdom
The contemporary world is building a cyber-megalopolis. This Internet super city is going to house goods from various parts of ...
TFT Lifestyle Book Picks
Views and Reviews by Ammar Ali Qureshi (Folio Books) As Pakistan battles for survival, it is important for us to ...
Salman Rushdie Tops Bestseller Charts Following Attack
Salman Rushdie, the controversial author who was attacked on Friday, is topping bestseller charts. Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses, deemed ...
Exploring Identity, Prejudice And Alienation In Maniza Naqvi’s Powerful Novel The Inn
From reluctant initial steps towards finding its own idiom as well as a politics that picks itself up and graduates ...
Why Pakistan Lags Behind In Academic Research?
One of major concerns for those working to improve education quality in Pakistan is deteriorating research culture in the country. ...
Reading Hajdi Murat During The War In Ukraine: Tolstoy And Reliving History
Those who forget history are condemned to relive it. It is interesting to see how one can learn so much ...
The Rise Of A Brahui Consciousness
What the nations of the world do in their daily lives is called culture. Culture has two types, material and ...
Second Edition Of Ananke ‘Women In Literature’ Festival To Celebrate Literati From The Global South
The second edition of Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival will be held digitally on the 31st of March and the ...
Karachi Literature Festival Returns With Dastangoi
“Any creative work of the past, be it sculpture, painting, music, drama, poetry, or architecture, which stimulates the depth of ...
Pakistani-American Author Wins Crawford Award For Science Fiction
Pakistani-American writer Usman T. Malik has won the 2022 Crawford Award, for his story collection Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan ...
‘There’s Too Much Patronage-Related Hierarchy In Pakistan’
Ideas and Futures is an e-journal that focuses on "re-imagining our societies beyond the pandemic". The journal, edited by Sadia ...
History, The Historian’s Craft And South Asian History: A Study Plan
The story to prepare this study plan goes like this: after having worked in the development sector – designing, managing, ...
Book Review: Kallo Tells Stories That Should Never Have Remained Untold
Full of wit, drama, and the bustle of local streets, foods, cultures, and everyday routine, Samina Nazir’s new book is ...
The Two Hameeds Of Lahore
It was great to read a few days ago that the Lahore Arts Council is planning to celebrate the 2019 ...
Foreign Influence And The Shaping Of An Individual’s Identity – The View From Arabic Literature
Whether in the form of colonialism or interaction with an individual from a contrasting cultural background, foreign influence undeniably leaves ...
The Seer Of China: Reading Lu Xun In Urdu, In The Centenary Year Of The CPC
Widely considered to be the father of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun – born 140 years ago today – was ...
Sindh University: Nostalgic Space of our Collective Memory – I
Since the 1950s, among the majority of educated youth of the region, ‘Sindh University,' ‘Jamshoro,' ‘patriotism,' ‘revolution,' and ‘Sindh’ have ...
Two Sides of a Coin: Western Philosophy and Arab Literature
It has been discerned for centuries that the bond between philosophy and literature is unshakable and unflagging. Each subject matter ...
Hamnet and the State of Being
It is standard fare to read Shakespeare at high school or so I thought – but these days high school ...
The Life and Times of Baba Bagloos – IV
RAZA NAEEM TRANSLATES THE STORY THAT MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR WROTE AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ZIA ERA, PRISON BRUTALITY AND ...
The Life and Times of Baba Bagloos – III
RAZA NAEEM TRANSLATES THE STORY THAT MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR WROTE AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ZIA ERA, PRISON BRUTALITY AND ...
The Life and Times of Baba Bagloos – II
RAZA NAEEM TRANSLATES THE STORY THAT MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR WROTE AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ZIA ERA, PRISON BRUTALITY AND ...
The Life and Times of Baba Bagloos
RAZA NAEEM TRANSLATES THE STORY THAT MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR WROTE AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ZIA ERA, PRISON BRUTALITY AND ...
On Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
By Momina Aijazuddin
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Bollywood Numero Uno Alia Bhatt Wishes ‘Baby’ Ranbir Kapoor In Viral Gram Post
Bollywood actor Alia Bhatt on Wednesday wished "baby"...
Climate Crisis: Pakistan Is In Urgent Need Of Assistance To Rebuild & Adapt, Sherry Rehman
In a statement issued on Wednesday 28 the...