A debut science fiction novel from Pakistan deals with heavy issues of colonialism and imperialism but is a rollicking adventure
Published 30 Sep, 2024 03:53pm
Dr Tariq Rahman’s book on Ghalib is an exceptional scholarly work that might prompt new thinking on a few themes in classical...
Published 30 Sep, 2024 03:49pm
During the 1970s and 1980s, some popular slogans among politically charged progressive students in Pakistan included...
Published 30 Sep, 2024 03:33pm
Journalist Robert Fisk’s posthumously published book about the Middle East is an analysis of his decades of reporting from that...
Published 22 Sep, 2024 08:50am
The latest poetry collection from a leading British poet of Pakistani origin contemplates the veracity and interpretation of words
Published 22 Sep, 2024 08:46am
A coffee table book on the city of Banbhore is priceless material for archaeologists and researchers but also contains a wealth of
Published 22 Sep, 2024 08:42am
As important as what to read is what not to read. So, instead of recommending a book on leadership or management...
Published 22 Sep, 2024 08:36am
A book that shows how public spaces, education and markets can be reshaped to nurture cooperation and help a society flourish
Published 15 Sep, 2024 09:28am
The memoirs of late actor Mathew Perry have him talking about his troubled life that drove him to drug and alcohol addiction
Published 15 Sep, 2024 09:25am
Muhammad Ali Siddiqi delves into more of his Evergreens from his reading shelf in an eighth installment
Published 15 Sep, 2024 08:58am
Autumn, 1979. At a church in Hammersmith, [London,] Ted Hughes reads from his collection Crow, which my friend buys...
Published 15 Sep, 2024 08:34am
A book that attempts to give context to Imran Khan’s political trajectory in Pakistan’s dynamic class and political landscape with
Published 08 Sep, 2024 09:45am
A retiree’s recollections of the many different aspects of the Karachi that was and is, along with the inhabitants of this city
Published 08 Sep, 2024 09:41am
A visually striking coffee-table book that delves into the broader socio-political implications of architectural design through...
Published 08 Sep, 2024 09:38am
Last time I wrote about learning Urdu, with a special focus on Ismat Chughtai’s writing. For me, 2024 has been the...
Published 08 Sep, 2024 09:32am
A book by a veteran educationist provides an overview of historical perspectives on teaching and teacher education and argues the
Published 01 Sep, 2024 06:31am
A satirical Urdu novella tells the story of a fantastical planet where animals with various human characteristics reign supreme
Published 01 Sep, 2024 06:31am
A book about Mairaj Muhammad Khan by his friend delves into the often-volatile life and times of the leftist politician and...
Published 01 Sep, 2024 06:31am
I begin with the confession that this column is limited to being a family memory. It is about my maternal uncle and...
Published 01 Sep, 2024 06:31am
Jhumpa Lahiri’s long-awaited return to the short-story genre is a moving collection about the lives of foreigners from various
Published 25 Aug, 2024 08:52am
A translator reflects on what she gained from a pioneering gathering of translators of South Asian languages
Published 25 Aug, 2024 08:51am
A one-day mini Adab Festival offered those attending plenty of insights and thought-provoking perspectives about books and issues
Published 25 Aug, 2024 08:50am
Learned bodies in arts and literature exist for the advancement and promotion of these disciplines, and everywhere ...
Published 25 Aug, 2024 08:49am
It is invariably a good sign when a writer does not allow tragedy and adversity to daunt him or her to the point where one’s...
Published 18 Aug, 2024 10:39am
Elif Shafak’s latest novel is a story about three lives across time and space, connected by history, myth, experience and a drop
Published 18 Aug, 2024 10:30am
A collection of articles looks at Pakistan through a socio-cultural lens
Published 18 Aug, 2024 10:24am
Looking for a great read to take on holiday with you? We had our experts review some of the hottest books of 2024…
Published 18 Aug, 2024 10:15am
In the early years of post-Iqbal history of Urdu poetry, one finds two distinct streams flowing alongside each other — the two...
Published 18 Aug, 2024 10:01am
Khan Academy’s Salman Khan pens a book about the potential of Artificial Intelligence to make quality, personalised education...
Published 11 Aug, 2024 09:22am
A slim, debut collection of Urdu short stories and pen sketches is a smooth and pleasurable read, bereft of abstruse vocabulary...
Published 11 Aug, 2024 09:16am
A collection of orally transmitted Baloch folktales, fables and riddles, essays about folklore, and stories from around the world
Published 11 Aug, 2024 09:13am
Waanyi writer Alexis Wright and her magnum opus Praiseworthy have made history by winning this year’s Miles...
Published 11 Aug, 2024 09:08am
The memoirs of Salman Faruqui, regarded often as one of Pakistan’s ‘super-bureaucrats’ till his retirement, shed light on many...
Published 04 Aug, 2024 09:16am
An English translation of a Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai novella puts an end to the general amnesia about the worth and significance
Published 04 Aug, 2024 09:11am
An illustrated and translated version of Allama Iqbal’s Payaam-i-Mashriq opens up the great poet’s Persian work even for the...
Published 04 Aug, 2024 09:08am
It is perplexing that Muhammad Husain Azad (1830-1910), author of the scintillating, so-called ‘first history of Urdu poetry’,
Updated 05 Aug, 2024 05:14pm
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, a Sri Lankan novel reads like a devastating and unputdownable memoir of a woman doctor...
Published 28 Jul, 2024 08:37am
A play about campus politics shines a light on how conflicts are resolved by the various political parties active among the...
Published 28 Jul, 2024 08:32am
A book by one of world’s leading clinical microbiologists is part memoir and part history lesson in infectious diseases and their
Published 28 Jul, 2024 08:23am
About a decade ago, when I was living in Karachi, I started thinking about how a lightweight, well-integrated public library model
Published 28 Jul, 2024 08:17am
Winner of the Asif Farrukhi Ilm-o-Agahi Award 2024, an Urdu novel about complex family dynamics explores the edgier psychology of
Published 22 Jul, 2024 08:13am
Media personality Mehdi Hasan delves into the history of the art of persuasion through history and brings his own experiences to
Published 22 Jul, 2024 08:08am
A collection of personal essays by a diaspora Kashmiri explores the intersections of tradition and modernity, familial...
Published 22 Jul, 2024 08:04am
In the 1990s, I first met Rana Abdul Rehman. His body was found a few days ago in a canal near Faisalabad.
Published 22 Jul, 2024 07:59am
Like Ghalib and Faiz before him, Sarmad Sehbai is a master of visual image construction in Urdu poetry and his new collection is
Updated 14 Jul, 2024 12:26pm
A book examines India’s fraught relationship with Occupied Jammu and Kashmir but also expands discussion of the dynamics of
Published 14 Jul, 2024 09:06am
A pioneering Pakistani book provides self-care toolkits to foster emotional intelligence and mental well-being among adolescents
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:57am
One Sunday morning in Karachi — I was eight — I heard my mother telling my father about a film she’d seen that Sunday morning,...
Published 14 Jul, 2024 08:51am
A sophomore novel is a poignant tale of three generations of a Pakistani immigrant family in the UK and about psychological wounds
Published 07 Jul, 2024 07:53am
