Writers take centre stage
Thank goodness, February has become Pakistan’s month of celebrating literature and the people’s successes in expressing themselves in other media. This year’s Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) and Lahore Literary Festival…
Writers of the world unite!
In the midst of this chaos that engulfs us as a country and society and under the thick clouds of depression and misery that cast a heavy shadow on our…
India can’t stop Pakistan’s water
There's been a controversy going on in Pakistan for several weeks now. The core issue is that in Punjab, under the control of the SIFC and their vision, the Green…
Our friend Sabeen
IN March, the founder of OpenAI, Sam Altman, announced his company had trained a new model that was “good at creative writing”. It was asked to write a metafictional literary…
What Bezos wants
THE Washington Post reportedly lost 75,000 digital subscribers last week after owner Jeff Bezos’ note announcing changes to his newspaper’s opinion pages. Opinions editor David Shipley immediately resigned after Bezos…
A case for Rano
A BEAR cub ambles along an alpine meadow dotted with blue forget-me-nots. Her mother keeps a watchful eye on her not far behind. The autumn air is crisp and the…
History’s witness
FEW writers can occupy Theodore White’s seat on the balcony of history. White is more famous for his quartet of books, each titled The Making of the President, covering the…
Lawfare against Farhatullah Babar
In one of my previous columns (‘Lawfare limited to warfare unlimited’, March 30, 2025) we discussed how states tend to use the law as a means to stifle dissenting voices.…
Literature hostage to the elite
There was a time when literature throbbed with the heartbeat of the people, a time when the pens of writers shook empires, exposed social inequalities and sparked revolutions. Literature was…
Something wicked this way comes
We live in a world where we are increasingly depending on artificial intelligence (AI) to generate answers to our multiple questions and in some cases to write text for voice…
