KARACHI: It’s not easy to drive on the under-construction Shaheed-e-Millat Road and indulge in philosophical ramblings at the same time. This way, Ali Hassan is not very different from other upcoming ...

What to do of a man who spent his life questioning the necessity of his own existence? A man who romanticises tuberculosis? On the flipside, as his niece Shahana Rais notes, pines for a woman who’d ...

"My dear Mir Zafar Hasan, you’re one lucky person." "Why do you say that, Jaun sahib?" "You are an exceptionally good poet and at the same time you’re extremely fortunate. You are Mir, but you can be ...

Jaun Elia, the boy from Amroha who kept a piece of the city in his heart forever, is known for his rebellious spirit and the intense emotions that can be felt in his poetry. His life was marked by a ...

What is the single greatest tragedy that we face as Southasians today? There may be many answers, but for the philosopher-poet Jaun Elia, the one crisis at the core of it all: Repression and internal ...