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Articles with tag: Literature

Neruda and Faiz: Great Contemporary Poets

Ikramul Haq   Jul 9, 2009   interacts: 12

One was honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature and the other with Lenin Peace Prize. Both Neruda and Faiz, like many others, notably Nazim Hikmet and Mahmoud Darwish, were essentially anti-colonialists and anti-imperialists.

A Brief Survey Of Pakistani Novels In English

Kumar Manoj   Mar 12, 2009   interacts: 11

Should we include those writers, like Khushwant Singh, who were born, brought up and educated in areas which are now in Pakistan but later migrated to what is now India?

Logotherapy: Humanism In Psychiatry

Mutaal Mooquin   May 21, 2008   interacts: 45

The heart has reasons that reason does not know ... A reflection on Victor Frankl’s “The Unheard Cry for Meaning�

My Top Ten Novels by Desi Writers

Asif Naqshbandi   Feb 12, 2008   interacts: 35

I am a prose stylist and all my choices reflect this bias.

Tribute to a Master

Asif Alig   Jul 19, 2007   interacts: 13

A book dedicating the contributions of the great Indian littérateur Premchand

Coffin Ride of the Classics

Anum Ali   May 31, 2007   interacts: 4

The creative classics of every genre are on life support systems and those who get them in the form of sequels, re-dos, movies etc make it to the modern flashy minds. Yes! All that flashes is gold today!

Deweaponise Your Thoughts

Shandana Minhas   May 28, 2007   interacts: 18

“..Because of the perpetual — and all-too-real — fear of being hurt, or of death, or of unbearable loss, or even of “mere” humiliation, each and every one of us, the conflict’s citizens, its prisoners, trim down our own

Double-Click for Lit

Mariam Shoaib   Feb 6, 2007   interacts: 6

a bookworm-now-blogger’s view on the digitization of literature

Dystopia: After the cliché

Nadeem F Paracha   Nov 27, 2004   interacts: 27

Dystopia. The opposite of Utopia. Or a Utopia gone bad. An idea and vision of a perfect world getting lost when translated into concrete reality.

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