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SMOKERS’ CORNER: MIDDLE CLASS INDIA'S IDENTITY CRISIS

On May 15, the Indian actress and parliame­ntarian Kangana Ranaut wrote an angry post on X. In it, she expressed anger towards US President Donald...

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Nadeem F. Paracha

GARDENING: ‘WHY HAS MY CUBAN OREGANO STOPPED GROWING?’

Q. I live in Lahore and maintain a small kitchen garden on the balcony of my house. I grow a number of daily-use aromatic herbs. The last few...

25.05.2025 1

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

NON-FICTION: Understanding the West’s racism

The World After Gaza By Pankaj Mishra Penguin Random House ISBN: 979-8217058891 304pp. Pankaj Mishra draws on his strength as an academic and takes...

25.05.2025 8

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Sahar Shehryar

EPICURIOUS: STREET-STYLE FROM MEXICO

When a friend first told me about La Mexicana Dhaba at the Defence ‘A’ Commercial Market walk-in food street located in Karachi’s DHA Phase 2, I...

25.05.2025 1

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Faisal Quraishi

FICTION: What if you swapped lives?

The Rainfall Market By You Yeong-Gwang Penguin Random House ISBN: 978-0593952665 224pp. There’s no denying the growing influence of Korean culture...

25.05.2025 2

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Sara Danial

ARTSPEAK: RESETTING THE MORAL COMPASS

As the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza becomes more macabre, we are confounded by the indifference of some powerful nations that not only have the...

25.05.2025 1

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Durriya Kazi

MIGRATION: PERILS OF THE PROMISED LAND

At 23, Ahmed Faraz left Karachi for Saudi Arabia for a better future. A recruitment agent had promised him a stable hotel job in Saudi Arabia with...

25.05.2025 10

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Munib Ali Daudpoto

EXHIBITION: THE BODY AS SPACE

The female body has always been a space of conflict — its ownership, boundaries and rights forever contested. Thus, its representation can scarcely...

25.05.2025 10

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Nimra Khan

HEALTH: FEATHERS AND FATAL LUNGS

Every morning at a roundabout near Karachi’s Sindh Assembly, a middle-aged man scatters fistfuls of grain on to the pavement. In seconds, the air...

25.05.2025 10

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Ahmad Bashir

THE NIGHT-BITTEN DAWN OF THE FATA MERGER

For Najibullah Wazir, a resident of North Waziristan, May 28, 2018, marked a historic turning point. On that day, Pakistan’s Parliament passed the...

25.05.2025 3

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Zia Ur Rehman

NON-FICTION

Yerkinpa Ki Talash Main By Muhammad Abduhu Green Heart Publishers, Faisalabad 144pp. It is not known when the route first came to be used, but a...

25.05.2025 1

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Salman Rashid

NEIGHBOURS: ‘OPERATION SINDOOR’ AND ITS OPTICS

Two curiously different narratives have been offered in parallel to the Indian public with respect to the recent strikes on Pakistan. The first, as...

25.05.2025 6

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Sarayu Pani

SPORTS: THE GAMES POPES LOVE

The world of sport is “a constellation of many stars,” Pope Francis told La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Italian daily sports newspaper, during a...

25.05.2025 2

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Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

Hi Auntie, I hope you are doing great. I have been your regular reader for years and I find your valuable advice quite productive. Ours is a joint...

25.05.2025 2

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From Inpapermagazine

THE MADNESS OF MODI’S MEDIA

“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” — Garry...

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Hasan Zaidi

COLUMN: EXCAVATING NARRATIVES

In The Museum Detective, Maha Khan Phillips returns with a fast-paced archaeological thriller. Set in Karachi, the novel meditates on how both...

18.05.2025 10

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Claire Chambers

SMOKERS’ CORNER: INDIA'S FAILED GAMBIT

India will never be the same again. Or at least not like what it has been since Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. On May 7 and 10, Indian forces...

18.05.2025 7

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Nadeem F. Paracha

GARDENING: CARING FOR THE CUCUMBER

! The first tendril appears on a three-week-old seedling | Photos by the writer The Armenian cucumber, also known as snake cucumber or yard-long...

18.05.2025 1

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

CRICKET: FROM UNDERDOGS TO CONTENDERS

The age-old quote by John F. Kennedy, “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan,” sums up how a team or an individual can get...

18.05.2025 1

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Shahid Akhtar Hashmi

CLIFTONIA: FANTASY NEWS

In an exclusive interview with the Cliftonia Post, Arsenab Grosswhammy — the Republic of Gangetica’s loudest anchor and the host of his popular...

18.05.2025 1

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Farid Alvie

EXHIBITION: PARADISE IN PARIS

The name Shalimar Gardens evokes images of a paradise on Earth, a concept deeply rooted in South Asian history and culture. Against this evocative...

18.05.2025 3

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Maroof Taj

DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM CHINA ON ERADICATING POVERTY

When they gained independence in the late 1940s, Pakistan and China inherited large numbers of impoverished people. While Pakistan had a relatively...

18.05.2025 4

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Dr Muhammad Ali Shaikh

ESSAY: HOW A DREAM WAS TRANSFORMED

Long before sectarian lines hardened across the Indian Subcontinent, a mystic named Guru Nanak emerged from the village of Talwandi (now Nankana...

18.05.2025 2

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Masood Lohar

NON-FICTION: LIVING TO TELL THE TALE

Seat 1C: A Survivor’s Tale of Hope, Resilience and Renewal By Zafar Masud Lightstone ISBN: 978-969-716-305-2 224pp. Holding a copy of Seat 1C: A...

18.05.2025 9

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Shazia Hasan

FICTION: THE ROBOTIC LIFE

Service Model By Adrian Tchaikovsky Tor, Pan Macmillan ISBN: 978-1-0350-4567-9 373pp. Adrian Tchaikovsky is a truly prolific writer. Service Model...

18.05.2025 3

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Rehana Alam

NON-FICTION: AROUND THE WORLD

Wanderings: Exploring Offbeat Places — Mostly — and the Unnoticed Dimensions of Common Ones By Imtiaz Piracha FAZLEESON’S ISBN: 978-969-441-343-3...

18.05.2025 10

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Shahzad Hasan

CRICKET: DETHRONING OF THE SULTANS

Mohammad Rizwan is arguably the most media-savvy active cricketer in Pakistan right now. He knows the art of virality. The zappy Rizwan has a...

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Ahsan Iftikhar Nagi

NON-FICTION: HISTORY THROUGH JOURNALISM’S LENS

Jurat-i-Inkaar Compiled by Dr Syed Jaffar Ahmed Institute of Historical & Social Research ISBN: 978-969-7985-47-0 184pp, The book Jurat-i-Inkaar is...

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Shahid Iqbal

GARDENING: THE KAKRI FROM ARMENIA

One of the most widely used vegetables in Asia, especially South Asia — where it is sold as a snack by road-side sellers — is the Armenian...

11.05.2025 1

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

COLUMN: AUTHORS AND WAR

In the works of Urdu’s prominent poet and cultural historian Farrukh Yar, the compositeness of South Asian civilisation and its key identity...

11.05.2025 4

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Harris Khalique

GOVERNANCE: USING PRIVATE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH

Public private partnerships (PPPs) have been embraced by successive Pakistani policymakers, as in other countries, as a means for improving...

11.05.2025 1

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Shehla Zaidi

EXHIBITION: THE UNAPOLOGETIC MUSLIM

Surveillance, traditionally understood as the systematic observation of individuals or groups, often intersects with contemporary discourses on...

11.05.2025 1

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Aarish Sardar

EPICURIOUS: THE PEERLESS TART

The frangipane filling, an almond and sugar paste, adds a whimsical twist to the traditional fruit tart. Although frangipane is a staple of French...

11.05.2025 1

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Maliha Diwan

THE HOPE AND DESPAIR OF FERTILITY TREATMENTS

Cradling her two-month-old twin girls in a quiet apartment in Dubai, Zenub is the perfect picture of the radiant mother she struggled so hard to...

11.05.2025 20

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Sarah B. Haider

FICTION: RADICALISATION AND REDEMPTION

Fundamentally By Nussaibah Younis Tiny Reparations Books ISBN: 978-0593851388 352pp. Nussaibah Younis is a political analyst and writer...

11.05.2025 2

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Sara Danial

SMOKERS’ CORNER: BETWEEN DOGMA AND SURVIVAL

In a 1956 essay, the British writer Aldous Huxley wrote, “At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and by the...

11.05.2025 2

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Nadeem F. Paracha

ARTSPEAK: STANDDING UP TO THE HAWKS

Instagram in Pakistan exploded with hilarious memes about the impending attack by India after the deadly attack in Pahalgam in India-occupied Jammu...

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Durriya Kazi

NEIGHBOURS: INDIA’S OBSESSION WITH PAKISTAN

Through the 1990s and up until fairly recently, India insisted on something called “de-hyphenation”. The hyphen referred to was the one in the...

11.05.2025 2

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Aakar Patel

FICTION: ROMANCE AND REALISM

Just for the Summer By Abby Jimenez Forever ISBN: 978-1538704431 432pp. Most romance novels rely heavily on escapist fantasies. In its truest...

11.05.2025 10

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Taha Kehar

ARTSPEAK: STANDING UP TO THE HAWKS

Instagram in Pakistan exploded with hilarious memes about the impending attack by India after the deadly attack in Pahalgam in India-occupied Jammu...

11.05.2025 2

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Durriya Kazi

NON-FICTION: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AUTEUR

Maestro: A Tribute to Shyam Benegal at 90 By Atul Tiwari Kautilya Books ISBN: 978-93-6063-062-1 233pp. In 1957, a young man visited Calcutta to...

04.05.2025 3

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Irfan Aslam

NON-FICTION: POPULISM AND PAKISTAN

Populist Identification in Public Discourse: Pakistanis Constructing Pakistaniat By Ihsan Yilmaz and Fizza Batool Palgrave Macmillan 239pp. The...

04.05.2025 4

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Asad-Ur-Rehman

ECONOMY: THE GREAT TEXTILE UNRAVELLING

At Sitara Textile Mills in Faisalabad, once a beacon of industrial pride and among Pakistan’s largest textile manufacturers, a haunting silence now...

04.05.2025 10

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Saddia Mazhar

FICTION: Their sister’s keepers

Blue Sisters By Coco Mellors 4th Estate ISBN: 978-0-00-862299-2 342pp. Famous for her bestselling Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Coco Mellors focuses...

04.05.2025 10

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Nadya Chishty-Mujahid

CAN INDIA STILL GO TO WAR WITH PAKISTAN?

PROLOGUE India has become infuriatingly formulaic when it comes to Pakistan. Here’s how the script goes. There’s an attack in Occupied Jammu and...

04.05.2025 7

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Ejaz Haider

GARDENING: THE VERTICAL GARDEN

One of the drawbacks of living in an apartment is the lack of availability of open, vacant ground-space to fulfill one’s gardening desires. A...

04.05.2025 1

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

EXHIBITION: THE ART OF ACCOUNTABILITY

There are art exhibitions that resonate, and then there are those that strike a deeper, more unsettling chord — demanding not just reflection, but...

04.05.2025 2

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Rumana Husain

CRICKET: QUEENS OF CRICKET

The match score sheet reads like any other cricket match score sheet. It was a thrilling night match held at the Sukkur Municipal Stadium two weeks...

04.05.2025 1

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Shazia Hasan

DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: PAANI AND THE POPE

Two days ago, Cobra, Janoo’s younger sister, called early in the morning, screaming historically down the phone. “War is starting,” she shrieked. “...

04.05.2025 2

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Moni Mohsin

CULTURE: THE EQUINE PRIDES OF SINDH

Muhammad Luqman, now in his sixties, has always loved horses. For him, it was inevitable, as he hails from a family that has been raising horses...

04.05.2025 4

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G.r. Junejo