Adil Najam In the 1,120 days that we have run Pakistaniat.com we have never had a dearth of topics to write about on Pakistan. Between our volatile politics, our effervescent society, our explosive geopolitics, our rich cultural heritage, our captivating literature and music, there is always something to say about Pakistan and Pakistaniat. Today is […]

Owais Mughal Let me confess I did not know what this was until I saw this picture. Do you know what it is? What is it used for? Where it comes from? Do tell us more about this is you do know? Or, make a guess? Answer on next page below

Adil Najam What is the most appropriate word for ‘GanDeri’ in English? I have puzzled over this for long and asked a number of friends. In fact, this is a re-post of the question I had posed at this blog 3 years ago. The best I got was ‘sugarcane cut-piece’; where ‘cut-piece’ is itself a […]