Decolonising Higher Education on June 25, 2022Western and American universities claim that if any person graduates from their universities, generally, he would be morally a good person prone to law-abiding and upholding of truth. The same has been the expectations from the graduates of the Pakistani universities because, after all, the universities have a universal agenda of producing graduates skilled in […]
Public and private ‘Twilight in Delhi’ on June 12, 2022The turn of socio-political events has unleashed waves of socio-cultural innovations impacting the social setup. Literature, a powerful torch bearer of such events, functions as the preserver of history and lets its readers enjoy the moment with its power of storytelling. Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi is one such masterpiece standing at the moment when […]
Environmentally Displaced Refugees on June 12, 2022Migration has been an essential part of human existence on this planet on multiple grounds. Humanity moved in search of food and greener pastures for the animals. But the modern geographical boundaries and the hegemonic control of capitalistic powers contained this free movement. The precariousness of sources on earth and the rapid environmental changes caused […]
Brave New World of Pakistani Anglophone Narratives on June 1, 2022After 9/11, our world began to metamorphose, at least at the level of literary productions, if not at the socio-political level. This is specifically significant in the case of Pakistan and its literary productions in English because Pakistan received the maximum impact of 9/11 and the New World Order proclaimed by the US. Pakistani literature […]
Karachi and Maki Kureishi’s poetic lens on May 29, 2022Pakistani city Karachi has been going through a history of nightmares, bloodshed and poor management during decades of bad governance. However, the same city has been generating maximum tax revenue because of the tremendous business activity conducted in that city round the clock. Besides, the best pieces of literature have also been produced, taught and […]
Meatless is powerless on May 9, 2022The metaphor of meat has multiple perspectives on Pakistani socio-political life. It can therefore be used for the multi-perspective nature of the life of Pakistanis inside and outside of the country. The meatless is the weak, powerless, lower-class, less educated and less provided people of Pakistan, while the meat-full is the reverse. The same metaphor […]
Decolonising Pakistan for Pakistanis on May 6, 2022The year 1947 brought independence for South Asia, and Pakistan came into existence out of the womb of the Indo-Pak subcontinent. Still, the decolonisation of this territory has not taken place in the real sense of the word. Fanon, the famous theorist, and critic from Algeria, says that the absolute independence was not fought for, […]
Butterflies, Fireflies, and Pakistani Diaspora on May 2, 2022As a metropolis and global city, London inhabits diaspora from worldwide and is somehow connected with the world because of its colonial heritage. It provides an opportunity for the diaspora to assimilate into the British Culture. Still, the process of assimilation has not succeeded in creating unity, harmony, and monolithic cultural patterns in England. The […]
Science Fiction to Magic Realism on April 28, 2022Science fiction and magic realism almost play the same game with the human imagination that these make the human imagination undergo a suspension of disbelief and so the fictional becomes temporarily acceptable as reality. But science fiction turns into magic realism as soon as it comes into the hands of a postcolonial writer in the […]
Emily Bronte’s code of impenetrability on April 22, 2022The mysteriousness in many of Emily’s poems generates an impression of Impenetrability into the all-powerful world of nature because of comparatively helpless nature of man. She is found occasionally stressing herself for her fulfilment as she wishes and attempts to regain the quickly fading consciousness of her place in nature but fails because of the […]