Stories by Nyla Daud
An illustrated and translated version of Allama Iqbal’s Payaam-i-Mashriq opens up the great poet’s Persian work even for the...
Published 04 Aug, 2024 09:08am
A sophomore novel is a poignant tale of three generations of a Pakistani immigrant family in the UK and about psychological wounds
Published 07 Jul, 2024 07:53am
The host of a women writers’ retreat in Abbottabad reflects on how this shared experience helped the participants face up to what
Published 07 Apr, 2024 06:46am
A collection of offbeat Urdu essays on ordinary and not-so-ordinary travel destinations transforms into poetic reflections
Published 10 Mar, 2024 07:25am
Eleven years since its inception, what is it about Lahore’s Faiz Festival that continues to draw more and more people to it?
Published 03 Mar, 2024 08:27am
Small mobile libraries in Lahore are opening up a whole new world of knowledge and recreation for communities and turning books
Published 24 Dec, 2023 06:31am
Salman Rashid’s latest book could well be used as a travel guidebook as well as an absorbing bedtime read
Updated 31 Dec, 2023 08:49am
An English translation of a woman’s story brings forth with great poignancy and spirit what a whole generation of children went...
Published 29 Oct, 2023 07:03am
A page-turner of a dystopian novel about a future one-party United Kingdom that harshly enforces a one-child policy is as much...
Published 01 Oct, 2023 06:53am
Historian Aanchal Malhotra’s debut novel is a story of deep love spread across four generations, and is steeped in scents
Published 13 Aug, 2023 08:24am
Deosai in Skardu is the second highest plateau in the world. The journey to it is as wondrous as the place itself. But better...
Published 18 Jun, 2023 07:09am
Salman Rashid’s beautifully produced travel treatise is a zesty story of the origins of this extensively traversed highwa...
Updated 11 Jun, 2023 07:27am
Village women in pockets across Pakistan create mud filigree art as ornamentation for their mud houses. But while the...
Published 12 Mar, 2023 07:15am
Tahmima Anam’s latest, futuristic novel is about technology, ambition, creativity, business and tornado-like undercurrents of...
Published 12 Feb, 2023 09:37am
Merging the personal and the public, this highly readable book will appeal to serious academics and to shrine culture’s die-har...
Published 01 Jan, 2023 08:50am
Although it has been 75 years since Partition, the loss of family homes and prized possessions continues to weigh heavy on some
Updated 21 Nov, 2022 08:53pm
A ground-breaking work is objective literature that rises above partisan subjectivity
Published 09 Oct, 2022 07:18am
Moneeza Hashmi’s book is a debt of honour to Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s fans, who would have known nothing about the sentiments Faiz the...
Published 04 Sep, 2022 11:10am
Ali Akbar Natiq’s sophomore novel touches upon so many disturbing facets of society that one is left reeling...
Published 12 Jun, 2022 08:58am
Murree of yore, both colonial and postcolonial, comes alive in the pages of this showstopper of a coffee table book,...
Published 21 Nov, 2021 07:32am
