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, […]
Diasporic cultural baggage on February 23, 2022The immigration issue and its possible and inevitable outcomes are the essence of Nadeem Aslam’s novel Maps for Lost Lovers. One of these is the failure of the Eastern culture in meting out the challenges of Western hegemonic culture. The novel also claims to be a multi-love story as well. Many love stories start and […]
Postmodernism in tandem with post-colonialism on February 13, 2022Twenty first century has gone great lengths in dismantling the long-established cultural norms of the world and is therefore much relevant to the postcolonialism and postmodernism because these two movements are responsible for this revolution in almost every platform of human life. Though read and practiced as two different tropes of studies with their specific […]
Fakebook-ness of Social Media! on February 12, 2022Facebook is proving actually fakebook including Twitter, Instagram and Tok-Tok and others because the walls of these media let the person hide behind the beauty of the pictures and fascinatingly intriguing messages. This has of late begun to cause more harm than the advantages social media was supposed to render. There have been sporadic reports […]
Power portrayal of women on February 7, 2022Pakistani anglophone literature in general is the literature of romance and conflict. The conflict emerges immediately as soon as an individual begins to tread a non-traditional path of love or ambition. When a man and woman fall in love with each other, mostly society and the families come in conflict with each other and this […]
Rubrics of Civilising Mission on February 2, 2022The often-quoted words “White men are saving the brown women from the Brown men,” reverberates the civilising claims of the white man for the less developed societies and that it is the women if these are educated, protected, and given equal status to man, the postcolonial societies can move forward to upward mobility. This, on […]
Abbasi voices the subalterns on January 27, 2022Talat Abbasi’s fiction reflects the life and plight of Pakistani women in the lower strata. She also offers comparison between the upper and lower-class women. Talat Abbasi like Sara Suleri and Kamila Shamsie, is more interested in the life of Pakistani women in general, as compared to Sidhwa who speaks a lot about her Parsee […]
Doubly Marginalised Minority Women on January 19, 2022Pakistani working women, even after earning money for themselves and ensuring a certain level of independence for them, are still living a marginalized life. If the working woman belongs to any minority community, she is doubly marginalised. Such a woman is Alice Bhatti in the novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif published […]