The writer is an art critic based in Islamabad.
ILF 2017 was a reasonable representation of current writing practice, and a quite varied presentation of contemporary Pakistani writing
The fifth edition of LLF was almost entirely detached from its locality, and this enabled the curators to relinquish any obligation to a token...
Unver Shafi’s recent exhibition at Koel Gallery in Karachi offered both reason for hope and evidence of confusion
No actor from Indian cinema in recent memory has become such a prominent public celebrity as Om Puri. Yet his wide-ranging influence was due in...
The Annual Degree Show at NCA seemed to equate opposing forces to artistic intention and its very absence
Shireen Kamran uses painting as a way to explore old sorrows in her new series, Saudade -- on show at Rohtas II
Transcending and translating colour is the sojourn that Ayessha Qureishi takes at Koel Gallery in Karachi
On S. H. Raza, one of the most prolific artists of the 20th century who created his own grammar rooted in the Indian tradition
-- Interview with Ziauddin Sardar
-- An interview with Reza Deghati
On N. M. Rashed’s poet tradition
An interview with Anita Anand -- journalist, TV presenter and biographer
Overall the ILF 2016 was a mature demonstration of a traditional festival
An exclusive interview with the Kashmiri poet and the first non-Irish recipient of Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, Rafiq Kathwari
A minimum of ideological posturing and a maximum of excitement, communality, fantasy and fun
KLF 2016 was an exhibition of contradictions, binaries and seemingly incompatible methodologies
The story of Lorilei Guillory comes to life at the PNCA, Islamabad, featuring powerful monologues in English and Urdu by Nimra Bucha and Sania Saeed
Eminent Urdu critic, poet, theorist and novelist, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi talks about his models and sources of inspiration
Romesh Gunesekera recounts stories built on faith lost in the melodramas of grievance and revenge enacted during the Sinhalese-Tamil Civil War and...
Hailed as "one of our most outstanding historians", John Keay talks about the simplistic historicisation of South Asia, and how he addresses...
