Mikhail Bakhtin on the making of a novel on April 3, 2021Bakhtin is emphatic that a novel is the best genre of literature as it affords all possibilities which probably epic or drama could ill afford and so its appeal is at a far wider level as compared to other genre of literature. Moreover, its world of enormous possibilities makes it easier for novel to reach […]
State egalitarianism and the role of local communities on March 17, 2021Mohammad Hanif in his novel Red Birds discusses the psychology of the Muslim world that when disaster strikes on any part of ours, we begin to recite names of God and start blaming each other or the ancestors of each other for the trouble we find ourselves in. This is an accurate analysis because very […]
The red birds in Mohammed Hanif’s Red Birds on December 28, 2020Birds, animals, living and non-living objects have been used by the human being to designate their territory, nation, belonging, commemoration, and for establishing relations. The same or more so has been done in literature in order to symbolize, indicate and to personify ideology or the social prestige of a nation, especially while writing allegorical, such […]
Art of writing in 21st Century on October 21, 2020The writing is one of the oldest human art used for the expression of thought and ideas as well as for the preservation of human experiences of life. The beginning was made with the drawing of pictures of human, animal and plant world around the human beings. From this crude and humble but beautiful art, […]
The after theory of Terry Eagleton on August 14, 2020In a recently published article titled Death of Postmodernism, Alison Gibbons claimed that the life of postmodernism is over. Similar opinion is voiced about critical theory by Terry Eagleton who believes that age of theory is over. But the fact is that Postmodernism or any other theory does not die or get wiped out, in […]
Post-Corona online Teaching on April 2, 2020CORONA Times has prompted number of universities and teaching institutions to turn to online channels to disperse knowledge and evaluate the learners as well, when everything enters into quarantine. Online teaching is a supportive mechanism to let the teacher and the taught remain in touch in virtual cyber environment while remaining comfortably at their spaces […]
Analyzing teaching methodologies in Pakistan on September 23, 2019Just recently had an opportunity to look at the results obtained by the students of varied sections of Pakistani life at intermediate and secondary levels and read about the happy boasts of Facebook friends about the percentage in the 90s achieved by their dear ones. All is good and well for the purpose of celebrations […]