Eastha in the flagship novel of Arundhati Roy, one of my favourite thinkers, the God of Small Things, has two thoughts: one is anything can happen to anyone and second is; it is best to be prepared. Life is fraught with tensions and irresolute junctures and there is no elixir to this malaise as Samuel […]
AR Dad — a poet of uncertain ideas
Poetry in effect precedes prose. When humanity was on its embryonic course of evolution things were less mechanical and more spontaneous. If a band of sapiens were living in a wee settlement they heavily relied upon poetic rhymes and rhythm to optimally remember and smoothly carry out quite hard and challenging activities. This simply means […]
The Broken Verses ferret out the lost dignity of a society in tatters
Syed Zahoor Shah Hashomi was a dynamic and an indomitable figure of Balochi literature. His area of study ranges from criticism, linguistic, lexicography, novel, short stories, letters and many more. He was a dedicated man and served Balochi to last of his breath. He burned the midnight oil to compile the first Balochi to Balochi […]
Fencing of border and plight of Turbat
Balochistan is reeling from multitudinous problems and resulting protestations are now a norm. Needless to reiterate, inviolability of borders is exceedingly important for a modern State to sustain its sovereignty. But borders also play a prime role in enhancing the economic upliftment of a State. And that has to be taken into account ahead of […]
Romancing the philosophy of Eros
There are four kinds of love according to Greek philosophy. But I will confine my study to Eros the romantic love. Consider love in this article as romantic love. 1 Philial 2 Eros 3 Platonic 4 Agape Before embarking upon love, it is imperative to shed light on it and keep it in perspective. When […]
Why read fiction, classic and literature? From Gilles Deleuze to Calvino: a brief study
I think that stories are exceedingly important for us as a civilization: the proverbial human civilisation. They rhapsodise our position resplendently like the eminent English poet and Nobel laureate T.S Eliot summed up in his poem a very gentle feeling of his in ‘Rhapsody in a windy night.’ We think that, we, in particular belong […]
Nobel laureate in literature Kazuo Ishiguro — a novelist of dark memories
Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born British novelist, was born on November 8, 1954, in Nagasaki Japan but left for England six years later in 1960 when his father along with entire nuclear family immigrated. Even so, these four years of Japanese ethos had had deep bearing on Ishiguro as his first two novels also revolve around the […]
Atta Shad — a poet cum anthropologist
13 February, 2021, marked the 24th death anniversary of Atta Shad. He wrote poetries par excellence in two languages: Balochi and Urdu. Born in November 1939 in a small village town Singanisar Turbat, Atta Shad began his literary career around 1950s. This period was highly ambivalent owing to political, literary and philosophical upheavals. However, it […]
Writer provides examples to substantiate all his points
Every community retains its own way or knack of learning foreign things; be it a language or a technique, there simply is no one exhaustive rule that tellingly says, “Yes, this is the way to do it.” Moreover, English in also brands its discrete style of re-purposing. That said, those who aspire to appear in […]
Leo Tolstoy relates things that on surface have no connection at all
It is said that when famed American novelist William Faulkner was asked to name any three greatest novels ever written, leaving a many flabbergasted, he retorted, “Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina and Anna Karenina.” In addition, Nabokov, one of the beacons of Russian fiction, renowned for his master-piece Lolita, remarked a compliment that is now history […]