The author is a freelance journalist based in Islamabad.
A British charity worker’s personal impressions of Pakistan and its people penned as a collection of narratives
Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, rightly described as the pioneer of Punjabi fiction, is no more, bringing to end an entire tradition
Om Prakash Valmiki’s memoir displays palpable anger since he can’t help getting worked up while writing about his past
A published poet, die-hard political worker and publisher rolled into one, Ashfaq Saleem has a collection of about 12,000 books, ninety five per...
A much-needed book that encapsulates the life and works of the worthy Nisar Aziz Butt
Nisar Ahmad is a rare fan of Dilip Kumar, having collected almost 25,000 photo cutouts and film posters of the legendary Bollywood actor over the...
How a man of meagre resources used his hard-earned money to cultivate his hobby, and collected some rare pieces in Hindi/Urdu and Punjabi films
Punjabi Khoj Garh is a research library which boasts nearly 10,000 books on diverse disciplines such as literature, history, poetry, and criticism
A slim biography of Pathanay Khan that skilfully dissects the life and times of the versatile artiste
Academic turned poet Salimur Rehman is a rare collector of gramophone records
Apart from nearly 45,000 books, including magazines, Ahmed Salim has in his collection complete files of some newspapers too
By compiling his blogs together, Akhtar Balouch ferrets out the forgotten benefactors of Karachi
Asim Kalyar’s personal library is home to nearly 1,000 books on Ghalib. It’s been an expensive hobby but something that is very dear to him
A biography of Jam Saqi, a die-hard left-wing leader widely hailed as the voice of the common people
If you feel jaded by reading official but insipid history books, this is the book you have been waiting for
Hamid Ali Khan has been selling and repairing pens on the Mall Road for the past 44 years now. He can neither leave his profession nor the place
Riaz Ahmad has designed thousands of book titles over the past three decades, without a professional degree in hand. It isn’t a paying job, he...
A worthy translation of Kafka’s The Castle by Tariq Aziz Sindhu
A recent book of profiles of men of letters by Irfan Javed carries a distinct flavour of fiction
Muhammad Shahid Hanif has famously prepared indices for noted Urdu literary journals such as Saqafat and Burhan. If there is one thing that is...
