Adil Najam The pictures coming out of Islamabad are not good. Not good at all. Here is yet more evidence – as if we needed more evidence – of a society at war with itself. The hostage-taking by women students from Jamia Hafsa in Islamabad of the residents of a house that they allege is […]
Raza Rumi Who doesn’t know Feryal Ali Gauhar? A novel at the top of The New York Times international bestseller list, years of television appearances and a highly publicised marriage to Jamal Shah that became fodder for countless gab sessions, have caricatured and made famous her persona. Had I not known her personally, I too […]
Raza Rumi An email from a Pakistan based writer friend made me recall Parveen Shakir. The poem, Tomato Ketchup, written most probably in the memory of Sara Shagufta (the modernist Pakistani poet who committed suicide in the footsteps of Sylvia Plath). I am not drawing conclusions or imagining comparisons. My writer-friend is neither suicidal nor […]
