Google celebrates Manto’s birthday with a doodle
There was an uncanny similarity between the lives of Pushkin and Manto, writes Raza Naeem. Both were largely unrecognised in their
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Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture
A letter to my father, Gabriel García Márquez
Not a day goes by that I don’t come across a reference to your novel “Love in the Time of
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Irrfan Khan: a powerhouse talent gone too soon
He was one of Indian cinema’s finest actors and among its most successful exports to Hollywood. He had only just begun,
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Artwork depicting Hopar valley’s biodiversity, life on auction
Painting ‘Maintain the biodiversity of magnificent Hopar Valley’ by Tahir Bilal Umii. Credit: Gallry6 Gallery6 takes initiative to provide relief
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What do theaters in Tajikistan tell us?
Five-wives-of-Khodja-Nasreddin_-dir.-Olim-Salimov-Mayakovskiy-theater-photo-Ulugova Lolisanam Ulugova traces the roots, evolution and contemporary theatre in Tajikistan which goes back to ancient centuries. In her
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Art’s relationship with power
by Harris Khalique | | It is indeed a matter of profound privilege and great pleasure to deliver this
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Frida Kahlo was a captivating subject for photographers
The artist took photography as seriously as painting By Celia Stahr Frida Kahlo, like her father, used photographic images—often with written words
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Urdu feminist writing: new approaches
This issue of WWB is concerned with exploring new approaches to Urdu feminist writing. The field of Urdu writing generally,
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Mrinal Sen’s films rejected political apathy
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty on a giant of the Bengali renaissance When Rabindranath Tagore died in 1941, crowds gathered outside his
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Pakistan’s literary saboteur at 100-III
In Askari’s view, the West became victim to depravity in its quest for progress Raza Naeem on the modernism of
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Food taboos: Kalasha women victim of faith, patriarchy
High Asia Herald Report There are certain food taboos in some Asian and African communities and tribes that are prohibited
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How Ikat accompanied history in Central Asia
Ikat is a fabric that got its name from the resist dye technique used to make its patterns. But Professor
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Young Afghan woman teaches Sufi dance in Kabul for ‘inner peace’
Mirzaie, founder of a Sama Dance group dances with her teammates in Kabul. Reuters Fahima Mirzaie hopes the Sufi dance
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Culture is soul of a nation: Dr Fouzia
Chinese new year music gala and intangible art show draws big crowed at PNCA By Farman Ali Islamabad, Jan
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Shaikh Ayaz: ‘Sindh’s Pablo Neruda’ remembered
By Farman Ali Literati of the capital have called for the promotion and dissemination of the message of
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