Paxi: A New Business Empowering Women in Pakistan
“The Pink Taxi service… launched in March 2017 in Karachi and is already seeing an overwhelmingly positive response.” Ifra Asad reports on Paxi.
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More Than 50 Shades of Grey
“Certainty needs to be upheld and so all inquiry in its midst must be regulated so as not to topple some invisible, delicate balance of floundering egos insisting upon their “only truthâ€.”
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Literature & Individuality in the Classroom
“Unfortunately, in a country with a rich tradition of literature, and one that has and continues to produce prolific writers and poets, the pursuit of literature suffers.”
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Solitary Consignment
Features Editor Maria Amir writes of the silent battles being waged between art and soul
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Literary or Not – The Reality of Escapist Fiction
Denied respect for much of literary history, what is the true value of escapist fiction? Features Editor Sana Hussain expounds.
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Gateways: A Caribbean Sampler
An introduction to the Caribbean writers’ feature By John Robert Lee “I accept this archipelago of the Americas.†~ Derek Walcott (‘The Muse of History’)…
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Reclaiming the Narrative
Features Editor Sana Hussain’s essay explores sexual power plays in Pakistani Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai’s short stories.
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Cutting Through The Fat
“Perhaps the most annoying pro-choice synonym I have discovered for being fat is “bubblyâ€. As if the extra poundage somehow magically morphs into excess humor and verbosity,” writes Features Editor Maria Amir in the Winter 2014 issue.
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USS: The Uncertain State of Superheroism
“While moral ambiguity is not an option for superheroes, how far can a writer take political and social messages of their time without resorting to the pulpit?” asks Deputy Articles Editor Mahnoor Yawar.
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The Rise of Pakistan’s First Comic Book Giants
From a Facebook page to bringing out Pakistan’s first true comic book, Ghausia Rashid Salam traces the progress of the Kachee Goliyan Comics’ boys.
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