Tag: Memoir

Living in a Dracula-like castle, Nazar Abbas experienced Romania from a unique vantage point

An abundance of Gheorghes left Indira Gandhi confused in Bucharest. Former Ambassador Nazar Abbas recalls his time in Romania

Omar Kauser Malik remembers his grandfather, the socialist writer Abdulla Malik (1920-2003), whose informative memoir of Lahore inspires a love ...

Mujahid Barelvi remembers a forgotten hero of the Baloch struggle. Translated from the Urdu by Babar Mirza

The birthplace of Mughal emperor Babur, and once a part of the Soviet Union, the Muslim country known as Kyrgyzstan ...

Mujahid Barelvi on the enigmatic Baloch leader. Translation from the Urdu by Babar Mirza

Dr. Fasihuddin Ahmed remembers his fiercely principled father, editor and writer Maulana Salahuddin Ahmed, a man who specialized in speaking ...

Former Ambassador Nazar Abbas recalls a time when Pakistan considered providing aid to neighbouring countries

Mira Sethi remembers a different Pakistan

Babar Mirza translates Amed Bashir's late 1980s essay on Waris Mir (1939-1987), whose political evolution is eerily reminiscent of the ...

Nazar Abbas took on his first ever ambassadorial position an hour before Benazir Bhutto was to arrive in Bishkek. His ...

In long, meandering chats with Irfan Javed, astrologer Ishaque Noor relives a bygone era of courtesanal hierarchies, street entertainers and ...

In a second look at her Bombay notebooks from the end of the 90s, Catriona Luke dwells on the deep ...

Australia, not Saudi Arabia, has the largest population of camels in the world and the subcontinent has something to do ...

After a hardship posting at Mozambique former Ambassador Nazar Abbas was transferred to Australia whose park facilities, odd language and ...

Posted to Mozambique at perhaps one of the worst times in its history, former diplomat Nazar Abbas and his colleagues ...

After ties broke down between India and Portugal, Gujarati Muslims stranded in Mozambique were given Pakistani citizenship. Former diplomat Nazar ...

In a deeply personal essay, Natasha Noman recounts her grandfather's struggle against apartheid that ran parallel to Mandela's but was ...

The buri aurat who empowered women through her poetry or the conventional housewife who advised submission in the face of ...

Led into becoming the second wife of Bahawalpur's sajjada nasheen, Ayesha Siddiqa's novelist mother carved out her own intellectual space ...

Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed questions the role of Pakistan's first Foreign Minister Dr. Zafrulla in the Pakistan story

Rashed's final act of defiance epitomised his individualism, writes Ali Madeeh Hashmi

Facing criticism from Indians and Pakistanis alike, Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed tackles questions on the Hindu class system and religious nationalism

Excerpts from Ahmed Bashir's 'Shoabdabaaz', a sketch of legendary Marxist and poet, Zaheer Kashmiri (1919-1994). Translated from the Urdu by ...

Moni Mohsin says she owes an everlasting debt of gratitude to her Christian compatriots and mentors