Private becomes public on March 21, 2023Pakistani postcolonial fiction is the stories of its producers, in one way or another, about them or their families. Most of these tales are relevant to the political history of Pakistan. The unique flavour of these stories is that it is private and public and the public is personal, meaning the individual’s stories are told […]
Withered imagination on February 28, 2023Technology has reformed the world beyond understanding and with tremendously terrific speed and consequently, the age-long and established value system is under threat of annihilation. One of these values is the exercise of imagination in creating imaginary at the individual and the national level. Creativity is at work all the time to make as much […]
From P-Reading to E-Reading on February 8, 2023E-revolution is being touted as the most significant agent of change witnessed in the 21st century. It has brought paper reading almost to zero and has supplanted it with reading on electronic gadgets, termed e-reading. This is a rapidly expanding area of digital life that is engulfing human beings all over the world in almost […]
Youth and the Political Turmoil on January 30, 2023It is said that the worst sufferers of wars and epidemics are the women and the kids. These days, political turmoil should be added to it, especially among the youth. The youth of the 21st century is not as passive and inactive as the past few generations. They are millennials and have a deep eye […]
Arts, Humanities and Sciences on January 19, 2023The world over, universities are following the guidelines to equate the studies of sciences and humanities, including the arts, on an equal footing. Still, in countries like Pakistan, a few individuals at the helm of academic affairs attempted to promote only the sciences, allocated vast amounts of funding to scientific research studies, and set the […]
Indigenousness and African literature on January 18, 2023Like Asia, Africa was also a primary colonial site for the European colonisers. It has been the battleground and a scene of contestation for the German as well as the British occupiers who though fought for supremacy, but the local and indigenous populations suffered while living in their lands. The German onslaught on the African […]
Academia-Industry Liaison and Pakistan on January 10, 2023All over the world, the new mode of working for academia is to get associated with the industry to provide solutions for the issues related to the industry and cater for a more conducive environment for society. This trend is prevailing worldwide, not only in science and technology but also in the social sciences. This […]
Magic realism in Mohsin Hamid’s narratives on January 9, 2023The technique of magic realism is a postmodern trait and has been practiced by many including Margaret Atwood in her The Blind Assassin and Gabriel Garcia in his One a hundred Years of Solitude. The purpose of the writers using the technique of magic realism is to find a probable possibility of the impossible and […]
Competitively Cooperative on December 30, 2022Darwin was right in his philosophy of survival of the fittest, but the same competition led humanity to evolve cooperatively to resolve the issues and crises created by this survival of the fittest. Human life has passed through multiple stages of its progression toward civilisation as it has moved from competition to cooperation. Competition has […]
Collaborating humanity and nature on December 21, 2022Man and nature are integral to each other because their life is mutually dependent. The inclusion of nature as a character and its manifestations have been a significant part of literature produced in different parts of the world until the movement of Humanism was introduced in literature during the renaissance period. Even in the 21st […]