The Prelude
Articles
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958Women Voices Are Louder but Not Enough-Aurangzeb Wattoo
There was a time when women were considered subaltern in field of arts and literature and they had to adopt pen names...
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2.5KWonder Women of Pakistani-Anglophone Literature-Aurangzeb Wattoo
There was a time when women writers used to write by using pen name to avoid social judgments and moral policing in...
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939THE CONSTITUTION MAY HAVE WON BUT AT THE COST OF DEMOCRACY-Ali Azmat
The political landscape of Pakistan has never been so much dichotomous. A sharp division is being witnessed currently consisting only of two...
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1.7KLiterary 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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969Taraqqi 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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1.2KShehnaz: 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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933Sardar 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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1.2KRaagni 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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1.9KLahore 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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1.3KWhen 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...