The writer is an art critic based in Islamabad.
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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...
Peter Oborne talks about taming the wounded tiger
Urvashi Butalia talks about what she’s gained and lost and what she’s still committed to learning
ILF 2015 was a compelling demonstration of the literary world’s struggle to create a language capable of fostering a conversation on a par with...
Hari Kunzru talks about his muse in this mechanised millennium, circumventing post-colonialism, identity issues and the UFOs