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2.6KInterviewsPast, Present, and Future of Pakistani-English Literature-Muneeza Shamsie Speaks to The Prelude
Muneeza Shamsie is a prestigious writer, an Eminent critic, bibliographer, literary journalist and a reputed editor in terms of Pakistani-English Literature. She...
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1.1KArticlesShehnaz: 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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1.1KPoetryThe Dance of Life-Asif Khan
The table was small, and he had put too many things on it, things large and small, precious and fragile, placed in...
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995Short StoriesAiza-Zakia Nasir
She sat in her office simmering with indignation, fists clenching and unclenching, sheresisted the desire to bang them on the table, as...
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798ArticlesSardar 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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1.3KShort StoriesRailway Station 1947-Rao Attiq Ur Rehman
At the Bahawal Nagar railway station, some local Muslims were anxiously waiting for the train which was bound to take the remaining...
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1.1KBook ReviewRaagni 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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1.7KBook ReviewLahore 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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1.2KArticlesWhen 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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1.4KBook ReviewA 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...
