Articles with tag: writers
Neruda and Faiz: Great Contemporary Poets
Ikramul Haq Jul 9, 2009 interacts: 12One was honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature and the other with Lenin Peace Prize. Both Neruda and Faiz, like many others, notably Nazim Hikmet and Mahmoud Darwish, were essentially anti-colonialists and anti-imperialists.
The Other Wonders of Khanpur
Rakesh Mani Apr 3, 2009 interacts: 1Lately, we’ve seen a flurry of first-rate fiction as young Pakistani writers begin to confidently address turmoil and change in their societies in a refreshing, contemporary way.
A Brief Survey Of Pakistani Novels In English
Kumar Manoj Mar 12, 2009 interacts: 11Should we include those writers, like Khushwant Singh, who were born, brought up and educated in areas which are now in Pakistan but later migrated to what is now India?
Post Colonial English Language Writers
William Dalrymple Oct 16, 2008 interacts: 9Post Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist a whole raft of new Pakistani novels are due to appear, all of which have already caused considerable pre-publication stir.
Writers Writers Everywhere, Not A Teenager Around?
Faiqah Mumtaz Jul 17, 2006 interacts: 2We are supposed to be acting adults, showing our worth to not only our country, but also to the world.
Two Score and Ten
Asif Naqshbandi Feb 11, 2005 interacts: 26Books that have somehow changed my life...
Mapping Karachi’s Charms and Contradictions
Zeynab Ali Nov 7, 2003 interacts: 136Kamila Shamsie spoke about ‘spider-plants’, the literary scene in Pakistan, an absence of ‘stone throwing fundamentalists’ in her work and inevitably about Karachi.
