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 […]
Dress code and Pakistani Anglophone short literature on April 9, 2022Shakespearean play Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night portray a disguise through dress code. In the former play, Portia disguises herself with a male dress code and succeeds to act as a lawyer and saves her lover which otherwise she might have failed. Similarly, in the latter play, Viola disguises in a male dress and […]
Digital Nomadism on April 1, 2022Gipsies and nomads have been of particular interest for many since the beginning of settled life. The same has been a source of interesting fictional narratives in the world of literature as well. Mathew Arnold composed the poem ‘Scholar Gypsy’ to commemorate the life of gipsies and their role in teaching arts and magic to […]
Connected learning is knocking at our doors on March 9, 2022The 21st century has introduced new challenges and additional burdens on the teaching system, especially aided by the fury of the COVID-19 which technology at the doors of education. The consequent system of education is termed online, distant, blended or hybrid mode of education. As such technology generated for a such as YouTube, Google suites, […]
Politics of Standard English on February 25, 2022The Indo-Pak subcontinent is the best model of colonial heritage even after the decolonization in 1947 that it is still running behind the divide based on being a good speaker of English and a bad speaker of English. Fortunately, or unfortunately, all the people inhabiting this part of the planet come across listening, speaking, writing, […]