Free Falling
In exquisite prose, Features Editor Maria Amir ruminates ‘freedom’, what it means now and whether an absolute definition is even merited.
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Manto’s Nuances of Freedom
Features Editor Sana Hussain writes of Pakistan’s arguably most controversial writer in Urdu and how the troubled writer coped with 1947’s partition from India.
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Belonging & Identity Through Literature
In the seventh issue’s cover feature, Sana Hussain writes about the constant quest for belonging in literature from the Lost Generation up to and including the twenty first century.
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On Call: A Surgical Nightmare
by Thirteen
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The Revolving Doors of Publishing
“A literature such as ours, which is slowly maturing and coming into its own, is often hauled over the coals for being elitist, or unrepresentative of the “true†Pakistan,” writes Sana Hussain. This generalization betrays the talent the industry has produced.
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Theatre of the Absurd
Priyanka Uchil writes about the changing perceptions around arranged marriages in the sub continent, arguing that “tying a chastity belt around a land that preached, practiced and propagated the Kamasutra seems a little far-fetched.”
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by Jacob Silkstone
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Where have all the hippies gone?
Communal living. Pacifists. Anti-war music. The Missing Slate Features Editor Maria Amir wonders about the willing absence to put up a fight before insufferable cruelty.
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Talk the Walk
Time to drop the ‘S’ word By Maria Amir “Because women’s work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious…
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The Road to Aletheia
The circle(s) of life
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