آئینے میں زیر تبصرہ کتاب ” آئینے میں“ دراصل منظوم ترجمہ ہے۔ اس منظوم ترجمے کے خالق ڈاکٹر سید محمد یحییٰ صبا میں موصوف اس سے پہلے بھی منظوم تراجم کے حوالے سے اہل علم و نظر سے داد و تحسین حاصل کر چکے ہیں۔ یہ کتاب جو اس وقت ہمارے پیش نظر ہے ”کلام […]
Urban Poverty, Unplanned Growth and Remedial Measures Alok Sinha WORKING WITH GOVERNMENT: THE STORY OF OPP’S COLLABORATION WITH STATEAGENCIES FOR REPLICATING ITS LOW COST SANITATION PROGRAMME By Arif Hasan City Press, Karachi, 1997, pp. 269, price not mentioned. AKHTAR HAMEED KHAN AND THE ORANGI PILOT PROJECT By Arif Hasan City Press, Karachi, 1999, pp. 58, […]
An Alternate Paradigm For Urban Planning A.G. Krishna Menon UNDERSTANDING KARACHI: PLANNING AND REFORM FOR THE FUTURE By Arif Hasan with assistance from Muhammed Younus and 5. Akbar Zaidi The City Press, Karachi, 1999, pp. 173, Pak Rs. 295.00 A mong the spatial design disciplines, urban planning is perhaps the least understood, that is, if […]
Sahitya Akademi COMPREHENSIVE ANTHOLOGIES OF INDIAN LITERATURE Set of 10 volumes These volumes constitute a monumental project launched by Sahitya Akademi (The National Academy of Letters) of publishing a comprehensive anthology of Indian Literature which would cover, say, 4000 years of Indian literature till the present day. ANCIENT ANCIENT INDIAN LITERATURE VOL I (An Anthology) […]
How Pakistan’s Technology Ticks Prabir Purkayastha TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION IN PAKISTAN: STORY OF A FAILED PRIVILEGED CLASS AND A SUCCESSFUL WORKING CLASS By Ghulam Kibria City Press, Karachi, 1998, pp. 446, Pak Rs. 300.00 E ngineers and technologists are generally an inarticulate lot and have written little about the nature of their craft. Narratives of technology […]
investment climate of a country is more important in attracting FDI than the available domestic incentives no matter how generous such incentives are. Their works also suggest the existence of an inverse relation between the degree of restrictiveness of trade and investment regime on the one hand and TFPG on the other. The latter exhibited […]
4 ARTICLES BOOKS & AUTHORS, DAWN, October 16, 2001 Whither this Urdu chauvinism? WEBSITE REVIEW By Ajmal Kamal A BOUT eight years ago, while I was compiling a special issue of the literary quarterly Aaj featuring a selection of modean Hindi short fictiort, translated or, transliterated into Urdu, 1 was struck by the fact that […]
4 ARTICLES BOOKS & AUTHORS, DAWN, December 20, 2001 Media language and politics WEBSITE REVIEW Ey Ajmal Kamal T HESE days one hears more often than ever before about truth being the first casualty of war. The war, in this case, being the ongoing unilateral bombing of one of the world’s most destitute nations by […]
BOOKS & AUTHORS, DAWN, January 29, 2002 WEBSITE REVIEW By Ajmal Kamal 66 WELCOME to the Garden of Forking Paths, one of the most intriguing areas of the Labyrinth of Allexamina. Here you will find access to the 1920’s in Buenos Aires, nobody thought of literature in terms of failure or suc-cess,” Borges says in […]
REVIEW BY MUHAMMAD ALI SIDDIQI Karachi and its charisma AAJ (Karachi ki Kahani); In Urdu; Vol 1 439 pages; Vol II 412 pages, price Rs 100 each; compiled by Ajmal Kamal; Editor Zeenat Hissam, published by Aaj ki Kitabain; A-16, Safari Heights, Block 15, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Karachi 75290; phone 811 3474; e-mail aaj@biruni.erum.com.pk T told this […]