Armughan-i-Hijaz (1938)
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Urdu Literature
Portrayal of women in the stories of Saadat Hasan Manto
Dawn, The Review, May 13-19, 1999 There seems to be no rest for the poor soul of Saadat Hasan Manto. While he was alive the conservatives held him in abuse for advocating women’s freedom. Now, in the so-called post-feminist age of literary criticism he seems to have become a popular target for energetic novices of …
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Zameer Jafri
Dawn Tuesday Review, 24-30 December, 1996 In the history of literature we find people who undergo expulsions, displacements or confinements for the sake of their inner voice. Usually, the perpetrator I a tyrant and the writer is the victim. Zameer Jafery’s is a similar case, albeit with a difference. The expulsion, displacement and confinement he …
Pura Chand Aur Adha Geet
‘8 Days a Week’, Dawn Tuesday Review, 26 March – 1 April 1996 If you read one book this week, read Pura Chand Aur Adha Geet … An anthology of poems by Azhar Niaz, who belongs to a special breed of poets who thrived in the Karachi University around the late eighties and early seventies …
The rise and fall of cult heroes
This article was originally published in Dawn, Tuesday Review, October 24-30, 1995. It was the first in a series that was introduced with the headline, “Celebrating the 100 years of cinema, Tuesday Review starts a five-part series beginning with this article on the cinematic heroes of the subcontinent.” Other articles in the series were ‘The …