Saadat Hasan Manto – part II
After partition of India Saadat Hassan Manto arrived in Lahore sometime in early 1948. In Bombay...
Category Archives: South Asian Literature
Saadat Hasan Manto- Writer of Stark Realities
Saadat Hassan Manto (May 11, 1912 – January 18, 1955) was a Pakistani Urdu short story...
Folklore sans frontiers
- Arts & Culture
- Countries & Regions
- India
- Pakistan
- Publications
- South Asia
- South Asian History
- South Asian Literature
- South Asian Politics
- The Friday Times
I was part of a delegation from Pakistan that was driving to Chandigarh to attend the...
The tender tea house
I was quite pleased to read this piece. Aside from fact that it talks about me,...
W.H. Auden’s poem – Partition
- Arts & Culture
- Countries & Regions
- India
- Poetry
- South Asia
- South Asian History
- South Asian Literature
My friend IK has reminded me of W.H. Auden’s poem “Partition,†published in 1966. These moving...
Fahmida Riaz – “Her dreams of the future”
- Arts & Culture
- Books
- Publications
- South Asia
- South Asian Literature
- The Friday Times
- Translations
- Urdu
- Urdu Literature
Barricaded Islamabad enveloped by the ghosts of national gloom has one little corner of hope. The...
Sadia Dehlvi’s book – Sufism: the Heart of Islam
Finally Sadia Dehlvi’s book, Sufism: The Heart of Islam (HarperCollins), is published and was launched last...
