Jameela Nishat gives us a profound gift – a set of poems that are evocative, poignant, provocative and insightful.

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The 17th Karachi Literature Festival was fuelled by an unswerving, if wildly optimistic, belief in the transformative power ...

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Instead, he encountered a resolute cold shoulder. Friends and fellow writers refused to meet him, mourning his silence during the 1971 atrocities -- the massacre of students, intellectuals, and ...

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Padma Shri poet Shafi Shauq warns institutions—not people—threaten Kashmiri. He explains power, translation, and survival.

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The star behind the hit ‘Pasoori’ on self-expression in Pakistan, the country’s relations with India — and the ‘Muslim ...

The Indian indie music scene is going through a paradigm shift as Santhanam Srinivasan Iyer, aka EPR, embarks on a new and exciting chapter of his illustrious c ...

The roots of antisemitism in societies such as Pakistan are often traced by local clerics to a particular Qur’anic verse which they interpret as stating that “Jews and Christians are not your (Muslims ...