The latest escalation in the Subcontinent reveals how quickly calculated brinkmanship can become uncontrollable fury.
Updated 10 Jun, 2025 02:33pm
One in six Pakistani girls is married off before the age of 18, which means almost 19 million child brides. Behind this statist
Updated 06 Jun, 2025 08:49pm
To commemorate World Ocean Day today, Pakistan’s most decorated sportsperson at the Asian Games recounts the country’s
Updated 06 Jun, 2025 08:49pm
The onset of summers in Karachi contracts the window for recreational activities, with Karachi residents often indulging in their
Updated 06 Jun, 2025 08:48pm
A British-Pakistani artist’s awe-inspiring creation envisions a world of religious and cultural coexistence
Updated 06 Jun, 2025 08:48pm
From protest anthems and songs to paintings and inventions, the anger of individuals has often shaped art, justice and technology
Updated 06 Jun, 2025 08:48pm
From Pakistan’s political myth-making to India’s media-fed fantasies of war, the truth is currently struggling against a tide of comforting falsehoods.
Updated 08 Jun, 2025 11:51am
The Lebanese cheese roll isn’t just food — it’s a story of trade, tradition and shared meals
Updated 06 Jun, 2025 08:48pm
‘My Mother Wants Me to Help Her, I Want to Read’
Updated 06 Jun, 2025 08:48pm
When your Armenian cucumber vine is all bachelor flowers and no fruit, it’s time for some tough love
Updated 06 Jun, 2025 08:48pm
Pakistan did not operationalise its quid pro quo plus response this time; it must not just retaliate, it should preempt.
Updated 01 Jun, 2025 09:07pm
Netflix’s critically acclaimed series Adolescence shows how male rage can pass from fathers to sons, in a cycle where violence
Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am
PSL 10 wasn’t just a cricket tournament — it was a story of redemption, surprises, heartbreaks and unforgettable highs
Updated 01 Jun, 2025 10:32am
Before Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man, there was Mumtaz Shahnawaz’s The Heart Divided — Pakistan’s first English-language Partition
Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am
Through an immersive art practice that interweaves sensory experience and environmental knowledge, Sara Aslam maps a path towards
Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am
The Ravi River becomes a vessel for memory, migration and melancholy at a deeply introspective exhibition in Lahore
Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am
If history is cyclical, as posited by some generational theorists, is Pakistan about to enter a new era of optimism and prosperity?
Updated 01 Jun, 2025 10:12am
Hypocritical Americans, mental Indians and salty Saudis grate on Butterfly’s nerve…
Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am
‘Can I Disobey My Family to Protect My Future?’
Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am
The Armenian cucumber produces a voluminous yield and can easily be grown vertically when the plant is cramped for space
Updated 10 Jun, 2025 02:35pm
The 2018 merger was meant to provide equal rights to their citizens. Many of those promises remain unfulfilled 7 years on, with discontent rising.
Updated 25 May, 2025 02:07pm
The dissonance between the cultural symbolism entrenched in the name of this operation and the more calculated nationalist narr
Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis sell everything for a shot at Gulf prosperity, only to find themselves trapped in
Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am
From pulpit to pitch: Pope Francis used sport to get his message to a wider world — that could continue with baseball-loving Leo
Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am
Across Pakistan, feeding pigeons is triggering a rare lung disease — one that leaves permanent damage — with doctors worried
Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am
Two contemporary artists explore the female body as both space and subject, thus charting a powerful course of reclamation and
Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am
The theatre of war in Gaza has exposed the moral bankruptcy of systems that once claimed to uphold human dignity.
Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am
Indian social media babbling about alpha males and the larger confusion result from a crumbling sense of security seeded by Modi’s "masculinised nationalism".
Updated 25 May, 2025 10:28am
Mexican fast-food just got an upgrade, thanks to Karachi’s La Mexicana Dhaba... and, who knows, it could be the next big thing
Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am
‘My Brother’s Addiction Is Ruining Our Family’
Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am
All your gardening queries answered here…
Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am
India’s mainstream media has traded fact for fantasy, devolving into a propaganda machine that espouses delusional narratives, endangers regional peace and erodes public reason.
Updated 25 May, 2025 07:19pm
While China has lifted nearly 800 million people out of poverty in the last seven decades, Pakistan’s poverty rate remains a
Published 18 May, 2025 07:52am
Led by Fatima Sana, Pakistan’s women cricketers have defied expectations, qualifying for the World Cup in style. Now, the
Published 18 May, 2025 07:52am
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, who passed away on May 28, was one of Kenya’s and indeed Africa’s greatest writers of all time. A Kenyan...
Published 06 Jun, 2025 07:52pm
The third book in a five-part fantasy series that is being compared to Harry Potter has recently come out. With magical dragons...
Published 06 Jun, 2025 07:46pm
An unusual collection of verse explores themes of nature and the environment and humanity’s attempts to mould them and co-exist
Published 06 Jun, 2025 07:41pm
In this column, we return to the structure of Qissa Chhabili Bhattiyari [Chhabili the Innkeeper] discussed earlier, to study how
Published 06 Jun, 2025 07:32pm
I have long delved into the relationship between art and power. It brings up new questions after every new incident,...
Published 01 Jun, 2025 06:51am
A powerful Urdu novel invites readers to question not only Pakistan’s political journey but also deeper spiritual and moral...
Published 01 Jun, 2025 06:51am
Despite a few historical flaws, Sana Pirzada’s latest novel, set before the turn of the 20th century, is a roller-coaster ride of
Published 01 Jun, 2025 06:51am
A former faculty member and administrator of prestigious universities pens a book that is part memoir, part history and part...
Published 01 Jun, 2025 06:51am
Pankaj Mishra’s latest book is a personal coming to terms with his pro-Zionist upbringing as well as the roots of the Western
Published 25 May, 2025 05:25am
A best-selling debut Young Adult novel from Korea weaves a fantasy that is grounded in reality, and which ultimately gently
Published 25 May, 2025 05:25am
A book by an accomplished trekker about his 10-day journey to the mountainous border of Pakistan with China is more erudite
Published 25 May, 2025 05:25am
November, 2023. On the top floor of the Shard, a very modern building near the Thames, there’s a prize-giving for...
Published 25 May, 2025 05:25am
Zafar Masud, one of the only two survivors of PIA Flight 8303 that crashed in Karachi five years ago, has penned a first-person
Published 18 May, 2025 08:40am
A sci-fi novel with a robot as a protagonist is a sarcastic commentary on human society and the futility of human ambition
Published 18 May, 2025 08:35am
A slim compilation of fascinating accounts of travels inside and outside Pakistan makes the reader feel like the author’s constant
Updated 18 May, 2025 12:02pm
In The Museum Detective, Maha Khan Phillips returns with a fast-paced archaeological thriller. Set in Karachi, the...
Published 18 May, 2025 08:25am
In the works of Urdu’s prominent poet and cultural historian Farrukh Yar, the compositeness of South Asian civilisation and its...
Updated 11 May, 2025 02:17pm
Senior journalist and rights activist Hussain Naqi’s detailed interview in a newly published book is a story of journalism and...
Published 11 May, 2025 09:07am
A formulaic romance novel segues into a study of the emotional and psychological challenges faced by its protagonists, exploring
Published 11 May, 2025 09:02am
A debut novel by a Middle East political analyst forces readers to reconsider their assumptions about ideological transformation
Published 11 May, 2025 08:56am
