The author is a freelance journalist based in Islamabad.
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...
An old bookstore in Dharampura prides itself on a vintage collection