The writer is an art critic based in Islamabad.
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
Journalist and writer Basharat Peer talks to Aasim Akhtar about his book Curfewed Night, George Orwell and his collaboration with Vishal Bhardwaj on...
At the LLF 2015, Naresh Fernandes presented music to the audience that captured the spirit of true jazz improvisation and the youthful vitality that...
KLF 2015 attracts new, curious, often non-literary personalities: businessmen, diplomats, politicians and partygoers
Damon Kowarsky on the place of print-making in art
Mah-e-Uriyan -- an ecstatic tribute to the deep interior passion of the lover
Sarmad Sehbai talks about poetry, drama and the influences that shaped his creative path
In her work displayed at the Khaas Gallery in Islamabad, Sobia Ahmed not only references history but also painting
Aslam Azhar walks down the memory lane of PTV’s past 50 years
The young miniaturists who have come into their own during the 1990s and 2000s have no experience of colonialism; they do not exhibit any of the...
Rukhsana Ahmed talks about her literary career and her multifarious concerns
A group show at Satrang Gallery, Islamabad strives to break boundaries and overcome tradition as form
Manju Kapoor talks about her skilful constructs that trace lives of Indian women
Pran Nevile talks about the ‘incomparable’ Lahore, its singers, artists, dancers and his fascination with the British Raj
Some of them are household names -- people with whom many of us have grown up and who are part of our shared memory. Others acknowledged as supreme...
Shrabani Basu is someone who visualises and sculpts time. In this era of inflatable figures and souped-up writers, it seems the array of methods at...
Shireen Kamran’s paintings constitute an inquisitive search into her own psychological makeup and a meditation on coexistence through...
