By compiling his blogs together, Akhtar Balouch ferrets out the forgotten benefactors of Karachi
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All about Ghalib
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
Read More »A metaphor of resistance
A biography of Jam Saqi, a die-hard left-wing leader widely hailed as the voice of the common people
Read More »Revisiting our history
If you feel jaded by reading official but insipid history books, this is the book you have been waiting for
Read More »The man on the Mall
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
Read More »10,000 titles, and still counting
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!”
Read More »Reading Kafka in Urdu
A worthy translation of Kafka’s The Castle by Tariq Aziz Sindhu
Read More »Of writers and rebels
A recent book of profiles of men of letters by Irfan Javed carries a distinct flavour of fiction
Read More »A catalogue wizard
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
Read More »A rare store
An old bookstore in Dharampura prides itself on a vintage collection
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