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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...
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...
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...
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...
The Rainfall Market By You Yeong-Gwang Penguin Random House ISBN: 978-0593952665 224pp. There’s no denying the growing influence of Korean culture...
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...
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...
The female body has always been a space of conflict — its ownership, boundaries and rights forever contested. Thus, its representation can scarcely...
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...
For Najibullah Wazir, a resident of North Waziristan, May 28, 2018, marked a historic turning point. On that day, Pakistan’s Parliament passed the...
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...
Two curiously different narratives have been offered in parallel to the Indian public with respect to the recent strikes on Pakistan. The first, as...
The world of sport is “a constellation of many stars,” Pope Francis told La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Italian daily sports newspaper, during a...
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...
“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...
In The Museum Detective, Maha Khan Phillips returns with a fast-paced archaeological thriller. Set in Karachi, the novel meditates on how both...
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...
! 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...
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...
In an exclusive interview with the Cliftonia Post, Arsenab Grosswhammy — the Republic of Gangetica’s loudest anchor and the host of his popular...
The name Shalimar Gardens evokes images of a paradise on Earth, a concept deeply rooted in South Asian history and culture. Against this evocative...
When they gained independence in the late 1940s, Pakistan and China inherited large numbers of impoverished people. While Pakistan had a relatively...
Long before sectarian lines hardened across the Indian Subcontinent, a mystic named Guru Nanak emerged from the village of Talwandi (now Nankana...
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...
Service Model By Adrian Tchaikovsky Tor, Pan Macmillan ISBN: 978-1-0350-4567-9 373pp. Adrian Tchaikovsky is a truly prolific writer. Service Model...
Wanderings: Exploring Offbeat Places — Mostly — and the Unnoticed Dimensions of Common Ones By Imtiaz Piracha FAZLEESON’S ISBN: 978-969-441-343-3...
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...
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...
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...
In the works of Urdu’s prominent poet and cultural historian Farrukh Yar, the compositeness of South Asian civilisation and its key identity...
Public private partnerships (PPPs) have been embraced by successive Pakistani policymakers, as in other countries, as a means for improving...
Surveillance, traditionally understood as the systematic observation of individuals or groups, often intersects with contemporary discourses on...
The frangipane filling, an almond and sugar paste, adds a whimsical twist to the traditional fruit tart. Although frangipane is a staple of French...
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...
Fundamentally By Nussaibah Younis Tiny Reparations Books ISBN: 978-0593851388 352pp. Nussaibah Younis is a political analyst and writer...
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...
Instagram in Pakistan exploded with hilarious memes about the impending attack by India after the deadly attack in Pahalgam in India-occupied Jammu...
Through the 1990s and up until fairly recently, India insisted on something called “de-hyphenation”. The hyphen referred to was the one in the...
Just for the Summer By Abby Jimenez Forever ISBN: 978-1538704431 432pp. Most romance novels rely heavily on escapist fantasies. In its truest...
Instagram in Pakistan exploded with hilarious memes about the impending attack by India after the deadly attack in Pahalgam in India-occupied Jammu...
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...
Populist Identification in Public Discourse: Pakistanis Constructing Pakistaniat By Ihsan Yilmaz and Fizza Batool Palgrave Macmillan 239pp. The...
At Sitara Textile Mills in Faisalabad, once a beacon of industrial pride and among Pakistan’s largest textile manufacturers, a haunting silence now...
Blue Sisters By Coco Mellors 4th Estate ISBN: 978-0-00-862299-2 342pp. Famous for her bestselling Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Coco Mellors focuses...
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...
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...
There are art exhibitions that resonate, and then there are those that strike a deeper, more unsettling chord — demanding not just reflection, but...
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...
Two days ago, Cobra, Janoo’s younger sister, called early in the morning, screaming historically down the phone. “War is starting,” she shrieked. “...
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...