April 23, 2000 The News on Sunday Understanding a megacity ‘Understanding Karachi’ gives a comprehensive knowledge of history of the area and the growth of city without which it is just not possible to properly handle the problems that bedevil the city. Review by Sarwat Ali T he most troubled city of Pakistan is also […]
POINT OF VIEW BY INTIZAR HUSAIN Superiority complex among Urdu writers H OW is it that we don’t find any Hindu poet during the early period of Urdu? But, soon afterwards Hindu poets and prose writ ers begin to pour in. Shamsur Rahman Farooqi, our scholar, smells a rat some where in this literary scenario […]
DAWN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2000 Moneylenders & encroachers In the Saddar area of Karachi, encroachers pay Rs 110 million per month in a 1 1/2 sq km area as bhatta to the police, writes Arif Hasan K arachi has 14,854 intra-city busen; all owned by private operators. stors. In In addition, it has 513 inter-city […]
Choosing to Stay Nasim Ansari Translated by Ralph Russell. City Press, 1999. Price Rs.160, Pages 196. Sarwat Ali T The partition of the subconti nent in 1947 posed a dilemma for the Muslims. As the coun-try was divided on the basis of religion it left no option for the Muslims who did not fall within […]
+ A response from the other side BY SAFDAR HUSSAIN CHOOSING TO STAY, Memoirs Of An Indian Muslim, by Nasim Ansari. Translated into English by Ralph Russel. Published by City Press, Karachi. 196pp. Rs160. M UKHTAR Masood’s Awaz-e-Dost was a well received effort in literary circles when it hit the shelves in 1972. It was […]
6 DAWN MAGAZINE Sunday, February 6, 2000 BOOKREVIEWBOOKREVIEW A book the rulers must read BY HUMAIR ISHTIAQ JINNAH BETRAYED, by A.B.S. Jafri. Published by Royal Book Company, Karachi. 101pp. Rs295. T O say that we have abused the great opportunity we had in the shape of Pakistan to rise as a self-respecting nation is but […]
Eight Week ere is the essential guide for the next seven days (and even beyond) of what to do when you have time on your hands and the desire not to just while it away by observ-ing migratory bird patterns (although you may find it in these columns if we spot a houbara bustard!). This […]
ZAMIR ALI BADAJYUNI whose book Jadeediat Aur Ma-Baad-e-Jadeediat, sub-titled “a literary and philosophical discourse”, is an exploration of the various modernist and post-mod-ernist theories being practised in the Western academia. The tension between the tradi-tional and the modern continues to be a defining feature for Urdu poetry. The charm and the elegance with which the […]
LITERATI By Asif Farrukhi T time lies heavy as the year close. “Time present and time future are both contained in time past, wrote the poet T.S. Eliot in words that some-how seem beyond time. Time pastor different faces of the past provide the substance of the two most rewarding books on my reading list […]
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