Per Likhay Jaanay Waalay Column
Zahida Hina
Translating to ‘The Strange Allure of the Wind’, as the subtitle explains, this is a collection of newspaper columns written on Covid-19 by renowned short story writer and columnist Zahida Hina. Beginning from March 2020, she looks at the pandemic in tandem with its global unfolding, explaining how Pakistanis can take a lesson from Japan and Germany, what message the virus brings for humanity, comparable events exactly a century ago and Isaac Newton’s thoughts on quarantine.
Through the Cracks
Bushra Naqi
Rich men and women populate this short story collection. But though they live in the lap of luxury, almost each has paid a dear price for it. Their hearts have been broken, perhaps because of unrequited love, perhaps because of beautiful illusions shattering to reveal ugly truths. They have experienced myriad tragedies deaths, divorces and illicit relationships that promised joy, but delivered only sorrow. There are controllin
Many readers and aspiring readers ask about how to select good books, as if there is a universal formula that one can apply on books and select the best ones. It all depends on how one defines a.
Somewhere towards the end of the first decade of this century, I came upon a review, in the pages of Dawn, of a book I knew I must read. It was called Nasheb-o-Faraz [Highs and Lows].
It took me several months to find it in a distant suburban library; in the middle of other tasks, I spent days of utter and occasional nail-biting delight immersed in this story part family saga and part thriller with a romantic heroine, three funny detectives adept at disguising themselves, a villainous vamp and scenes shifting from Bombay’s [Mumbai’s] high life during colonial times to a far more traditional Agra.
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