Recently serialised on Pakistan television, God's Own Land is set in the slums of Karachi and Lahore. It is the early 1950s, shortly after partition with India. The story concerns a poor but respectabl…
آنگن" خدیجہ مستور کا بہترین ناول ہے، جس میں انہوں نے تقسیم ہند و پاک کے دوران ہونے والے سماجی، سیاسی، اقتصادی بحران کو دکھانے کی کوشش کی ہے ، ناول میں حقیقی گھریلو زندگی کی اس طرح سے تصویر کھینچی گئی …
Raja Gidh (Urdu: راجه گدھ) by Bano Qudsia is one of the most widely read and acclaimed Urdu novels. Gidh is the Urdu word for a vulture and Raja is a Hindi synonym for king. The name anticipates the k…
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit…
Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. A fifth of hu…
