Logic of Politics and Governance in Punjab by ASAD UR REHMAN
Each day one can easily find a rainbow of opinions providing solutions to all the ills of governance and politics in Pakistan. These opinions telecasted...
Month : October 2017
Madan Gandhi, a Mystic Mariner by PERVEIZ ALI
Book Name: The Rhyme of Mystic Mariner Genre: Poetry Author: Prof. Madan Gandhi Year of Publication: 2017 Published by: Poetry Society of India ISBN: 978-93-83888-76-4...
A Book No Pakistani Publisher Could Dare Publish by M Ghazali Khan
Bar-e-Shanasai (The Burden of Having Known) Author: Karamatullah Ghori Reviewed by: M Ghazali Khan Pages: 199 Price: Rs 200 / Euro 10 Publisher: Pharos Media...
The fight of Parsi women by RUHI BHASIN & ANKITAJOHRI
A group of old friends has gathered in a cosy room, lined with bookshelves on one side, in a house on Laburnum Road in south...
As I thought on a Toilet Seat by Puneet Bedi
I was doing some serious thinking this morning. I was contemplating things like the laws governing our universe, the complexities of daily life, the basic...
Married Men and the Other Women by RIMLI BHATTACHARYA
A clandestine affair with a married man is a sinewy phenomenon, but pretty captivating. It’s a truth one cannot deny that when a single woman...
Fighting an ancient curse – The Monster of Iodine Deficiency Disorders by KHALID IQBAL
I am not a scholar, an intellectual, a philosopher or a think tank. I am a student. Therefore, I always try to learn. I pose...
Is Poetry a Cathartic Reality? An Interview by Sufia Khatoon
Poetry Has Come As A Cathartic Reality In My Own Life: Says Lopamudra Banerjee, Poet, Author of ‘Let The Night Sing’, ‘Thwarted Escape’ It is...
Why India Needs to Worry About Being a True Democracy BY ASHRAF LONE
India is a country with diverse religions and cultures. Here persons of different faiths have lived in brotherhood and communal harmony since centuries. Muslims take...
Moonlight by SUZZANA JAVED
Sometimes when people are leaving they give you an assurance of how great you are. I wonder if that assurance and those compliments are their...
Breast feeding in Public – Really? RIMLI BHTTACHARYA
“Please use a cover, you see its public, though you are in a ladies compartment its visible, you should be more modest, I mean to...
My Experience of Child Abuse by Nadia Khan Yousafzai
Note: “Zohra is 23 years old and lives in New York, USA. Her name and city is changed for privacy purpose.” “We were playing this...
Naseeruddin Shah remembers Kundan Shah
Kundan Shah was hardly individualistic, in fact as a student at FTII, he was scarcely distinguishable from his two closest friends Ravi Ojha and Gopal...
What Delhi Needs to Learn from Islamabad by SYED ATA HASNANIN
Recently Pakistan was embarrassed in the UN General Assembly by its Permanent Representative’s gaffe, when she waved the photograph of a Palestinian girl injured in...
REMEMBERING FAIZ AHMAD FAIZ by DR. SATYAPAL ANAND (1)
(A paper read in the Karachi meet of THE RA VIANS, the alumni of Government College & University, Lahore, now living in Karachi to celebrate...
A SHADOW OF KARBALA by Asif Farrukhi
More than a thousand years ago, a small group, including women and children, fearing bloodshed in the sanctified city of Makkah began an arduous journey...
Polygamy in Pakistan by HILDE JACOBS
The interpretation of the sacred Koran varies quite significantly amidst the Muslim community. So if you for example look at the sura regarding Polygamy in...
“Let the Night Sing” by PERVIEZ ALI
Book Name: Let the Night Sing Genre: Poetry Author: Lopamudra Banerjee Year of Publication: 2017 Published by: Global Fraternity of Poets (Haryana, India) ISBN: 978-93-83755-34-9...
Nouman Ali Khan Scandal and my Dismay by Humera Gul
It was 2010 Icna convention, that was the first time I met with Muslim Scholar Nouman Ali Khan and his family. I saw his wife...
