Olzhas Suleimenov on Eurasianism, internationalism and the forgotten past
This interview with Olzhas Suleimenov was initially published in 2015 in the book Art-Atmosphere of Alma-Ata, co-authored by Zitta Sultanbayeva and
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Literature
Interview: ‘Middle East, South Asia going through big change’
Qasim A. Moini VALI Reza Nasr is one of the most important voices in international relations today. Currently dean of
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How to learn a language in 15 minutes per day
How long should you practice a new language every day? We sat down with one of our linguistics experts here
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Comrade Manto – I
The iconic writer famously had a difficult relationship with the Progressive Writers Association. But Raza Naeem argues it was far
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Why artists often critique rather than endorse nationalism
Dua Abbas Rizvi Nationalism in the arts can be seen as a contradiction in terms. Paying homage to the nation
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Gabriel García Márquez remembers his dearest friend, Julio Cortázar
“I always thought that death itself seemed indecent to him.” By Gabriel García Márquez Mexico City, February 12th, 1994– I went to
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What do I risk losing by writing down my family’s stories in English?
Jamil Jan Kochai on traditions of Afghan oral storytelling By Jamil Jan Kochai Listen, Before I read Kipling or Faulkner or Pynchon,
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Biggest fiction bestsellers of the last 100 years
By Emily Temple As the year draws to a close, some of us like to look forward, and some of us backward—and
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Global justice: How to think about Empire
Boston Review speaks with Arundhati Roy on censorship, storytelling, and her problem with the term ‘postcolonialism.’ In her second novel,
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Toward changing the language of creative writing classrooms
Praise, like criticism, can make us forget what art is for By Helen Betya Rubinstein I open the creative writing courses
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Modern technology is akin to the metaphysics of Vedanta
Akhandadhi Das Courtesy Wikipedia You might think that digital technologies, often considered a product of ‘the West’, would hasten the
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The other Jaun Elia-II
By Zameer Abbas I shared the first part of this piece on an elitist WhatsApp group of government officials,
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The other Jaun Elia-I
In his two-part article, Zameer Abbas touches upon the other sides of Juan Ellia’s personality as a progressive thinker, biographer,
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Poverty of aid: Academics question US, Pakistan’s elites’ development model
The American model for development after World War-II was utterly incongruent with the social, economic, political and institutional ground realities in Pakistan …For this very reason, American and Pakistan’s ruling elites’ solution of throwing money for the alleviation of poverty did not have much success,” Professor Nipa Banerjee, a senior fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences at the School of International Development and Global Studies at Ottawa University, Canada.
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Moses to Marx
Raza Neem Eminent social historian, writer and journalist Syed Sibte Hassan set off on his final journey on April 20,
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