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Nadeem Farooq Paracha’s latest book may not tread new ground for those who follow his column, but will provide a different...

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Former The Guardian correspondent Samira Shackle presents a compelling story about Karachi through the eyes of five extraor...

A writer profiles Karachi’s everyday citizens, highlighting their fears and hopes The past year has not been kind to Pakistan. The pandemic has crippled the country, leaving limited capacity to battle another contagion: bad PR. 2019 saw the launch of Sanam Maher’s A Woman Like Her and in 2020 we read Declan Walsh’s The Nine Lives of Pakistan. British freelance writer Samira Shackle’s newly released Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City completes a carnage trilogy, revealin...

Sarmila Bose,  (Hurst, 2011). The creation of Bangladesh was a missed opportunity for India to reverse the British partition of Bengal. It was an error of judgement due to India’s tendency to think in terms of how to damage Pakistan, rather than what might benefit India.  At the end of the 1971 war, Pakistan was in disarray and the Indian army was in control of the territory of East Pakistan. Had Indira Gandhi annexed it as the new state of East Bengal within the Union of India and offered ...

Show more In Karachi Vice, journalist Samira Shackle tracks the lives of a Karachi ambulance driver, street school teacher and crime reporter amongst others - and uses their story to map a history of different political groupings across the city and the recent decades. New Generation Thinker Majed Akhter from Kings College, London researches water shortages and dam building. Ejaz Haider is a journalist based in Lahore. They share their views of Pakistan with Rana Mitter. Karach...

Noam Chomsky, Bill Gates, Avni Doshi among speakers as Jaipur Lit Fest goes virtual The coronavirus pandemic, racism and nationalism and, of course, books will be talked about at the 14th edition of the popular literature festival that will be held from February 19-28. February 13, 2021 / 08:43 AM IST (From Left) Jaipur Literature Festival producer Sanjoy K Roy with co-directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple. (File image) Instead of footfalls on the hallowed ground of the Diggi Pal...