The Liberty Books Karachi will go live on Facebook on Friday January 15, 2021 at 3.30p.m bringing Anjum Altaf in its program ‘Meet the Author’ for an interesting conversation on the book ‘Transgressions’, compilation of his poems inspired by Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Dr. Anjum Altaf, is the former Dean of the Lahore University of Management […]
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Other Side of the Divide, a book on Pakistan authored by Sameer Arshad Khatlani, is the mind-cleansing antidote that India needs – it is also a book that will help Indians understand themselves and their own country better. Pakistanis cannot consider him an alien because of his religious identity, neither can Indians lay claim to […]
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The book ‘The Prison Diaries’ comprises Sheikh Mujib’s two notebooks. In the first one, he had described the environment of jails: how many kinds of ‘jails within a jail’ and prisoners were there, how convicts spent their days when imprisoned, the environment of prison hospital, quality of food and so on. Depicting the extent of […]
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Book Review Book: ‘Jey Tau Anja Na Jato’ Author: Noor Ahmed Janjhi The primary leitmotif of these superb and enlightening essays is how to avoid the pitfalls of awful insanity, inanity and to use our god gifted facilities and faculties in the proper way by using the tools of Religion, Philosophy, Science, Mysticism, Technology and […]
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Book Review Mother, I do not believe those who shed tears and show people how their eyes water. Those who truly think of the beloved do not weep or say anything. Bhittai “Risalo” of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, edited and translated by Christopher Shackle brings to light an important voice from an intersection of a […]
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Book Review In 2020, as the US withdraws after making a deal with the Taliban and intra-Afghan negotiations are occurring on a new power-sharing arrangement which may herald a significant role for the Taliban, Dalrymple’s account of the First Anglo-Afghan War continues to hold important lessons for those of us in the region as well […]
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Book Review The Fist Which Opens – A journey of poetry therapy from the distant past to the present future – The new book of Rati Saxena, well-known poetess from India I consider poetry as the eternal remedy for poets themselves. Poetry heals poets first, to make them trying accomplishing their mission by healing the […]
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Kenneth Baker examines more than a hundred political murders in a new book. British author was once a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government. He recalls his fortune at missing an explosion that ripped through a conference. By Tony Rennell Too close for comfort and too often — that is Tory grandee Lord (Kenneth) […]
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Book Review Dr. Anjum Altaf, author of the book ‘Transgressions: Poems Inspired by Faiz Ahmed Faiz’ was Dean at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and Provost at Habib University in Karachi. The book contains 30 poems and each poem is followed by notes. The poems correspond to the poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz […]
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It is the story of an anarchist corporate power stretched over more than two hundred years…..from 1599 to 1857. It plundered not only the resources of the subcontinent but threw the area into a prolonged colonialism. They ruled the indigenous people and introduced a strategy of making and breaking alliances for the sustainability of the […]
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