TNS – The News on Sunday

By compiling his blogs together, Akhtar Balouch ferrets out the forgotten benefactors of Karachi

Asim Kalyar’s personal library is home to nearly 1,000 books on Ghalib. It’s been an expensive hobby but something that is very dear to him

A biography of Jam Saqi, a die-hard left-wing leader widely hailed as the voice of the common people

If you feel jaded by reading official but insipid history books, this is the book you have been waiting for

Hamid Ali Khan has been selling and repairing pens on the Mall Road for the past 44 years now. He can neither leave his profession nor the place

Riaz Ahmad has designed thousands of book titles over the past three decades, without a professional degree in hand. It isn’t a paying job, he admits; “You’ll do it only if you love it!”

A worthy translation of Kafka’s The Castle by Tariq Aziz Sindhu

A recent book of profiles of men of letters by Irfan Javed carries a distinct flavour of fiction

Muhammad Shahid Hanif has famously prepared indices for noted Urdu literary journals. If there is one thing that is stopping him from taking his work forward, it is the shortage of funds

An old bookstore in Dharampura prides itself on a vintage collection