The Prelude
Articles
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1.3KLiterary Festivals Return to Post-coronial Pakistan-Aurangzeb Wattoo
March is the brightest month for literature lovers in Pakistan as it ended the suffocating era of COVID 19 and it brought...
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578Taraqqi Pasand Afsana:Muashrati-O-Tabqati Kashmakash(Progressive Short Story: Social and Class Conflict)-A Review-Dr.Reyaz Kashmiri
Progressive Writers’ Movement is without any doubt one of the greatest movements in Urdu literature. The movement’s influence on Urdu literature especially...
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938Shehnaz: The Indian Beauty Who Mesmerized Everyone, From Nehru to Dilip Kumar-Sophia Naz
In the early 50s, not long after she had arrived in Bombay (later Mumbai) as a newly-married bride, my mother portrayed Anarkali...
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642Sardar Udham: The film and a nostalgic idea of anti-colonial resistance-Rida Akhtar Ghumman
Making resistance literature, par excellence for excellent is the spirit supposed, is a complicated phenomenon especially in the “master’s” factory. Film and...
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858Raagni ki Khoj Mein(In Search of Ditty),A journey towards Spirituality-Nadia Anwar
From the enviable pen of Najiba Arif comes another mesmerizing book appropriately titled as ‘Raagni ki Khoj Mein’ [In Search of the...
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1.4KLahore I am Coming: An Echo from the Past-Karim Akhtar
Poetry, perhaps one of the oldest genres of literature, transcends history and philosophy. As Sir Philip Sidney in his Defence of Poesy...
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1.1KWhen Dilip Kumar’s On-screen Roles Challenged the System-Aurangeb Wattoo
Since the days of Socrates, art and literature have always been very effective ways to bring social and political change into stagnant...
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1.1KA Terrifying Investigation-The Girl in the Ice By Robert Bryndza-Fatima Ahsan
The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza is a detective novel, which will solve the mysterious story of murder with the...
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1.1KIntellectual and Academic World Slams Israel and imperialism-The Prelude
A large number of academics and intellectual from Pakistan, India and Kashmir condemned the atrocities committed by Israeli forces against civilian Palestinians...
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601Paul Vihimga Abuul’s A Dance of Wizard: A Review-James Adzande
Preamble The role of the writer in a society cannot be overstated. Writers are the touch-bearers that direct the society towards illumination....