Reviews

Six hundred words worth of a review is simply not enough to do justice to this erudite and remarkably well-researched work.

Notes on an Execution’ by Danya Kukafka burrowed deep under my skin from the opening pages.

Taimur Awan’s poetic prowess and a serene sense of rhyme are reflected in his poems. He is the author of two books – a collection of poems – Spiritual Balms and Empyrean Realms.

Akbar Zaidi follows up his edited volume New Perspectives on Pakistan’s Economy with this erudite and engaging scholarly monograph on the role played by print and orality in helping to shape Muslim subcontinental identity in nineteenth century India, especially during the Raj.

Primarily a mixing of different food cultures and cuisines together, fusion cooking can be referred to as a form of cooking which combines…

At a quarter of the length of Hamid Khan’s tome on constitutional law, this particular book on Islamic inheritance might be less lengthy…

The Way You Live by Mehrin Ruaid brings out life’s important questions about choosing a life partner.

‘Tales from Karachi’ is a collection of flash fiction and poetry about Karachi, once referred to as ‘The City of Lights.’

Memoirs that resemble hagiographical texts are grossly unreliable as they fail to present a nuanced portrait of reality. Syed Nizam Shah’s Paradise Lost…

Despite the fact that many of us live in cities, and even if we do not their growth, structures and changes impact us, many of us remain utterly unaware of how complex these spaces are.

Any discourse on Pak-Afghan relations requires a careful consideration of the cumulative impact of history, geopolitics and the ever-evolving ground realities.

An officially recorded history always tends to differ with personal accounts that recount the same set of events, but in a way of their own. ‘A Personal Chronicle of Pakistan’