a diversified and comprehensive bouquet of writings in Roman script languages
Thief’s charity is robber’s gain (Satyapal Anand) Today I did two things against the very grain of my nature. I normally do not give alms to beggars for I know it encourages them to earn […]
Frankfurt School diagnosed the ills of Western civilisation (Stuart Walton) ‘One wants to break free of the past,’ Theodor Adorno, one of the Frankfurt School’s leading luminaries, wrote in an essay in 1959. ‘Rightly, because […]
Youm-e-Takbir : when my country became great (Haneen Khalid) The first time I addressed a crowd was on occasion of Youm-e-Takbir. I must have been six or seven years old, but I remember it so […]
Book of Dust : fiction (Philip Pullman) It’s been 17 years since Lyra Belacqua’s story ended in The Amber Spyglass, the devastating final novel in Philip Pullman’s majestic trilogy His Dark Materials. But how did […]
Dr Nasir Abbas Nayyar’s Urdu Science Board: anonymity blossoms to meaningful activity (Asghar Bashir) The whole notion can be described in a single sentence: Dr. Nasir Abbas Nayyar invited me to attend the seminar at […]
Secularism, utopian fantasy? (Afiya S. Zia) In a recent address, Chaudhry Nisar hit out at political opponents by classifying them as ‘secular’ and equating the term with ‘non-believing’. Clearly, the interior minister needs tuition in […]
Populist nationalism finished? Hardly (Pippa Norris) Commentators are proclaiming that the nationalist populist wave has stalled. They point to the remarkable victory of the pro-European Union centrist Emmanuel Macron over National Front candidate Marine Le […]
Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in China. We found that the Internet fuels — and fights — this. (Rose Luqiu and Fan Yang) During the National People’s Congress in March, top officials from the […]
Rubaiyat Omar Khayyam inspired Victorian hedonists (Roman Krznaric) How did a 400-line poem based on the writings of a Persian sage and advocating seize-the-day hedonism achieve widespread popularity in Victorian England? ‘The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ […]
Community ruins literature (Jason Guriel) The “pugilist poet” August Kleinzahler is one of the prickliest loners in American letters. It’s no accident, then, that his new book, Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose 2000-2016, […]
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