Naiyer Masud, the foremost short story writer of Urdu, is matchless in the underlying absurd, bizarre, paradoxical happenings that are suppressed in...
Exploring the fallacy of inseparability of text and its meaning, and how context and perspective affect the process of reading the text
All dominant narratives of colonial and postcolonial societies stem from the discursive matrix created out of displacement and homecoming
All displaced writers perennially seek to return to their motherland, their paradise, with a strong wish to reclaim their cultural identity
Forms of free verse and prose poem are borne out of minimising the role, influence and power of literary tradition
A new, transformed picture of nature emerges in literature, out of the amalgamation of social, psychological, linguistic factors
A critique of the assumption that longer fiction possesses ample space to grasp and create all kinds of development
How can nostalgia drive a creative writer into travelling to a distant cultural past, and reclaiming it?
How colonised people feel indebted to their ‘benevolent’ rulers and how they become torchbearers of a new, reformed, modernised cognition
Language is believed to be one of the most authentic means of perceiving reality. Words are made not only to ‘say’ something but ‘do’ a lot...
