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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Literature
Kazakh, Kyrgyz nomads under Soviet rule
In his book, Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Alun Thomas examines the
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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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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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The graveyard talks back –I
Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, and her party supporters attend a protest march against the National Register
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Pakistan’s literary saboteur at 100 – II
Raza Naeem on the modernism of Muhammad Hasan Askari (1919 – 1978) It is often stated that a new age
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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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Speakers describe Iftikhar Arif ’pride of Urdu’
SDPI honors the living legend with ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for his contribution to Urdu language, literature
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Razia Sajjad Zaheer: The forgotten virtuoso of Urdu literature
By Raza Naeem Raziya Sajjad Zaheer (1917-1979), who passed away in Delhi 40 years ago today, was one of Urdu’s most
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Rumi – an inspiration to Pakistani poets, writers
Pakistanis are familiar with Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi – a 13th-century Sufi mystic, poet and Islamic scholar – as famous poets
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Celebrating Heer who challenged patriarchy in Punjab
Artists, historians, and writers are marking Punjab’s secular epic, 250 years after it was penned by Waris Shah
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What is ‘agency’ and how is it exercised?
Reshma Parveen-Musofer In literature agency is defined as a personal capacity. It is the feeling of gaining control
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Remembering Ismat Chughtai–II
Raza Naeem on the style and sensibilities of one of the boldest Urdu short-story writers Ismat Chughtai’s prose carried
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Faiz and the world
Raza Naeem offers an exhaustive review of this year’s edition of the Faiz International Festival The Faiz International Festival
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Icons of the progressive writers
Saira Mujtaba talks to Raza Naeem about two leading lights of the Progressive Writers Association – who both passed away
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