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COLUMN: LITERATURE AND POLITICS

COLUMN: LITERATURE AND POLITICS

When it comes to art’s relationship with power, history is replete with instances where artists have sucked up to power. However

27.04.2025 80

Dawn (Magazines)

Harris Khalique

COLUMN: FLOWERS IN A MIRROR

Many years ago, the late poet, critic and broadcaster Qamar Jameel scribed his poetry collection Chahaar Khwaab [Four Dreams] for

09.03.2025 10

Dawn (Magazines)

Harris Khalique

COLUMN: YARDSTICKS OF LIFE

At the 16th Karachi Literature Festival (KLF), the two incisive keynote speeches in the inaugural session, by F.S....

16.02.2025 10

Dawn (Magazines)

Harris Khalique

COLUMN: SHERSHAH AND THE PMA HOUSE

Our ace poet Ahmed Mushtaq writes: “Yeh hain naey loagon ke ghar, sach hai ab inn ko kya khabar/ Dil bhi kisi ka naam tha, gham bhi kisi ki zaat thi...

05.01.2025 10

Dawn (Magazines)

Harris Khalique

Column: The illustrious Zaheers

We know that the first claim to fame for Syed Sajjad Zaheer (1905-1973) is the founding of the Indian Progressive Writers Association (PWA),...

24.11.2024 10

Dawn (Magazines)

Harris Khalique

COLUMN: ADIEU, RAHAT SAEED

The prolific and leading English author from the past century E.M. Forster famously wrote: “Two cheers for democracy, one because it admits variety...

03.11.2024 7

Dawn (Magazines)

Harris Khalique

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE IN PAKISTAN

On August 11, 1947, the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, gave his most important official speech — not to a political...

11.08.2024 20

Dawn (Magazines)

Harris Khalique