Socio-political cartography of life on March 20, 2022The novel Kartography by Shamsie portrays 21st century Pakistani educated women through discussion on the identity related issues. The novel portrays two generations of characters with the view that sufferings of one generation extend to the next one also. The first generation is represented through Maheen and Laila and Raheen and Sonia are the young […]
Semester system in Pakistan on September 23, 2020So far, the global academic world goes, semester system of teaching has proved its efficacy. Nonetheless, it has succeeded in yielding fruit in Pakistan only partially. It is successful because it keeps the learners and students at their toes to meet up their requisite goals and to get a degree of skill and professional training. […]
Post-Corona pedagogical challenges! on September 8, 2020Being an academic at the lower field-formation of Education Punjab, one can feel the impact of Corona on Education significantly, especially the way it has changed the modes of teaching in class rooms. With just one stroke of New-Normal, the student and teacher both disappeared from the class room and instead virtual media became the […]
Post-corona pedagogical challenges! on September 3, 2020Being an academic at the lower field-formation of Education Punjab, one can feel the impact of Corona on Education significantly, especially the way it has changed the modes of teaching in class rooms. With just one stroke of New-Normal, the student and teacher both disappeared from the class room and instead virtual media became the […]
George Eliot — a modernist in the Victorian Era on February 2, 2020Victorian age not only found but also propagated manners and morals abundantly and made it visible in the literature of that time. This aspect of literature of Victorian age made it one of the populist forms of literature, specially fiction got prominent because of such trends. The significant and glaring names of the age are […]
Historicising History — a re-reading of Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi on January 21, 2020The recent anti-Muslim riots in India, especially in Delhi, reminds me of Twilight in Delhi at the time when Muslim culture was under threat because of the intervention from the British colonialism and the clash of two civilisations and cultures in India, which has been better pronounced as the collision of cultures by Dr David […]
The importance of postcolonial literature on January 7, 2020Literary theorist and critic Terry Eagleton in his book After Theory claims that postcolonial theory and literature are the most flourishing fields of cultural theory and he further asserts, that it deals with the conflicts and issues of the current world. So, Postcolonial literature is very relevant in our lives even in the 21st century, […]
Inevitability of literature on December 17, 2019Literature has never gone non-existent from human life and has survived with its relish and didactic attitudes almost always. Even after the attempts of a specific group of academicians to prove that teaching of literature is no more required in the ages of rapid and effective communications, literature and its teaching continued to exert itself. […]
Life and literature on November 7, 2019It was literature that made life beautiful and created the tales of romance and love. In fact, it is literature which has described the softer side of human beings. It has been the only medium through which human beings could ventilate and vocalize themselves. Be it victories of war or the discovery of new place, […]
Lane-lessness is lawlessness on October 24, 2019It has been rightly said that if one wants to know about the psychology of people, just take a look at the way people in the vehicles are moving on the roads. We in Pakistan have proved the best manifestation of this phenomenon because on our roads, the scenes of traffic indiscipline are visible almost […]