Asif Farrukhi, who passed away on June 1, was more than just a fiction writer, an essayist, a critic, a translator or a literary festival organiser. He was truly a giant of global literature
Writing is an act of creating order out of disorder, coherence out of chaos and an attempt at making absurdity bearable
The recently concluded LLF was all about the connection between art and fiction, and how culture blurs all boundaries between various genres
The number of conformist literature writers is on the rise in Pakistan while it is getting increasingly hard to find new dissident popular writers.
Discovering the indispensable link between psychology and art/ literature through a reading of Akhter Ahsen’s works
Syed Nomanul Haq meticulously turns a compiled version of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s collected works into a critical one and thus marks a moment of historic significance in contemporary Urdu literature
Umera Ahmed’s latest novel is all about simplistic binaries and the rejection of the world in favour of the author’s chosen truth
Undoubtedly, Enver Sajjad was one of the greatest creative minds Pakistan and the world of Urdu literature ever produced, yet he quit writing some 25 years before his death. And he kept his word till his last breath. However, whatever he produced has become part of our literary history, and that needs to be reflected on critically.
Suroor Barabankvi’s collected works make clear that the late poet was one who illuminated the personal as much as the socio-political