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      • "Life is amoral and I try to depict it as such"
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    • 2017
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      • Wild but not free
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      • The originality question
    • 2015
      • An unforgettable lesson of history
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      • Not just a novel
      • A sign of things to come
      • Globalising a local experience
      • If free speech were really free
    • 2014
      • Controlling interpretations
      • From manuscript to publishing
      • The art of the possible
      • The 50,000-word letter
      • What the media reports or not
      • The useful bodies
      • Voice of the narrator
      • Celebrate Marquez but why
      • After a century and a half
      • Inkling of immortality
      • Language of literature
    • 2013
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    • 2009
      • The gender paradox
      • The internal maps of the terrorised
      • "The government should have nothing to do with any sect"
      • Ghosts of Muridke
      • Spokesman of multiculturalism
      • Zen-like calm of Hunza
      • Nothing is sacred in popular humour. Everything goes
      • The art of peeling the eyelids
      • "…the legal mess the government is in"
      • When a drifter meets another drifter
      • Blasted to modernity
      • Voluntarily displaced
      • State of education
      • State of police rule
      • Love is only so called
      • Plotting against poverty
      • The heart of the world is actually a bullet
      • Where water comes together
      • History of disasters
      • A curious development
    • 2008
      • Bush vs. Al-Zaidi
      • Open to contradictions
      • Raw power versus justice
      • Out in the open
      • Promoters of purity
      • Fragility of it all
      • Listen to what they are saying
      • For an effective safeguard against misuse of religion
      • Against contemporary greed
      • Between sausage and doner kebab
      • Anomalies of the present
      • Poet for paperless people
      • Poverty is also a defence issue
      • By any means necessary Shahenshah's survival story in Athens
      • Waiting among the dead
      • Your sentence
      • Even philosophers need to eat
      • Utopia for me Wherever you are, you are legal
      • 'Balochis want to reform the existing order'
      • Caste Schmaste
      • ‘We’re going to wait till May 12’
      • Simplifying the non-West
    • 2007
      • Success of understatement
    • 2006
      • A movement called Edward Said
      • The recent controversy about creativity in Urdu is already archaic
      • "I do not write cold, detached prose"- interview with Mazhar ul Islam
      • Don’t be dull
      • Neither aboriginal nor postcolonial - An interview with Mohsin Hamid
      • The horizon is an advertisement
    • 1994
      • A maestro of metaphors
Home
  • Portfolio
    • Creative Writing
      • The Sharpness of Grass Blades
      • The internal maps of the terrorised
      • Your Sentence
  • Journalistic Work
    • 2020
      • Writers and their nights
      • Classroom Blues
    • 2019
      • To Cambodia with apps
      • Museum, Islands and moonless nights
      • Erasing Uncertainties
      • The raconteur will win in the end
      • Man Proposes…
      • Understanding academic problems
      • ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter-Narratives by Masood Ashraf Raja - A
      • Permanent Record by Edward Snowden review - a spellbinding thriller
      • Leaving a mark in 2019
    • 2018
      • Uncomfortable stories
      • Poems on Lahore and much much more
      • Cerebral, political, romantic
      • Three provinces, one trip
      • Three provinces, one trip II
      • "Life is amoral and I try to depict it as such"
      • Monitoring the digital age
    • 2017
      • “A society without literature and arts would be a freak society”
      • A caretaker for the invisible
      • The world of academics
    • 2016
      • Re-entering the library
      • Wild but not free
      • Following her own path
      • The originality question
    • 2015
      • An unforgettable lesson of history
      • Writing against death
      • Not just a novel
      • A sign of things to come
      • Globalising a local experience
      • If free speech were really free
    • 2014
      • Controlling interpretations
      • From manuscript to publishing
      • The art of the possible
      • The 50,000-word letter
      • What the media reports or not
      • The useful bodies
      • Voice of the narrator
      • Celebrate Marquez but why
      • After a century and a half
      • Inkling of immortality
      • Language of literature
    • 2013
      • Politics by literary means
    • 2009
      • The gender paradox
      • The internal maps of the terrorised
      • "The government should have nothing to do with any sect"
      • Ghosts of Muridke
      • Spokesman of multiculturalism
      • Zen-like calm of Hunza
      • Nothing is sacred in popular humour. Everything goes
      • The art of peeling the eyelids
      • "…the legal mess the government is in"
      • When a drifter meets another drifter
      • Blasted to modernity
      • Voluntarily displaced
      • State of education
      • State of police rule
      • Love is only so called
      • Plotting against poverty
      • The heart of the world is actually a bullet
      • Where water comes together
      • History of disasters
      • A curious development
    • 2008
      • Bush vs. Al-Zaidi
      • Open to contradictions
      • Raw power versus justice
      • Out in the open
      • Promoters of purity
      • Fragility of it all
      • Listen to what they are saying
      • For an effective safeguard against misuse of religion
      • Against contemporary greed
      • Between sausage and doner kebab
      • Anomalies of the present
      • Poet for paperless people
      • Poverty is also a defence issue
      • By any means necessary Shahenshah's survival story in Athens
      • Waiting among the dead
      • Your sentence
      • Even philosophers need to eat
      • Utopia for me Wherever you are, you are legal
      • 'Balochis want to reform the existing order'
      • Caste Schmaste
      • ‘We’re going to wait till May 12’
      • Simplifying the non-West
    • 2007
      • Success of understatement
    • 2006
      • A movement called Edward Said
      • The recent controversy about creativity in Urdu is already archaic
      • "I do not write cold, detached prose"- interview with Mazhar ul Islam
      • Don’t be dull
      • Neither aboriginal nor postcolonial - An interview with Mohsin Hamid
      • The horizon is an advertisement
    • 1994
      • A maestro of metaphors
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    • Portfolio
      • Creative Writing
        • The Sharpness of Grass Blades
        • The internal maps of the terrorised
        • Your Sentence
    • Journalistic Work
      • 2020
        • Writers and their nights
        • Classroom Blues
      • 2019
        • To Cambodia with apps
        • Museum, Islands and moonless nights
        • Erasing Uncertainties
        • The raconteur will win in the end
        • Man Proposes…
        • Understanding academic problems
        • ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter-Narratives by Masood Ashraf Raja - A
        • Permanent Record by Edward Snowden review - a spellbinding thriller
        • Leaving a mark in 2019
      • 2018
        • Uncomfortable stories
        • Poems on Lahore and much much more
        • Cerebral, political, romantic
        • Three provinces, one trip
        • Three provinces, one trip II
        • "Life is amoral and I try to depict it as such"
        • Monitoring the digital age
      • 2017
        • “A society without literature and arts would be a freak society”
        • A caretaker for the invisible
        • The world of academics
      • 2016
        • Re-entering the library
        • Wild but not free
        • Following her own path
        • The originality question
      • 2015
        • An unforgettable lesson of history
        • Writing against death
        • Not just a novel
        • A sign of things to come
        • Globalising a local experience
        • If free speech were really free
      • 2014
        • Controlling interpretations
        • From manuscript to publishing
        • The art of the possible
        • The 50,000-word letter
        • What the media reports or not
        • The useful bodies
        • Voice of the narrator
        • Celebrate Marquez but why
        • After a century and a half
        • Inkling of immortality
        • Language of literature
      • 2013
        • Politics by literary means
      • 2009
        • The gender paradox
        • The internal maps of the terrorised
        • "The government should have nothing to do with any sect"
        • Ghosts of Muridke
        • Spokesman of multiculturalism
        • Zen-like calm of Hunza
        • Nothing is sacred in popular humour. Everything goes
        • The art of peeling the eyelids
        • "…the legal mess the government is in"
        • When a drifter meets another drifter
        • Blasted to modernity
        • Voluntarily displaced
        • State of education
        • State of police rule
        • Love is only so called
        • Plotting against poverty
        • The heart of the world is actually a bullet
        • Where water comes together
        • History of disasters
        • A curious development
      • 2008
        • Bush vs. Al-Zaidi
        • Open to contradictions
        • Raw power versus justice
        • Out in the open
        • Promoters of purity
        • Fragility of it all
        • Listen to what they are saying
        • For an effective safeguard against misuse of religion
        • Against contemporary greed
        • Between sausage and doner kebab
        • Anomalies of the present
        • Poet for paperless people
        • Poverty is also a defence issue
        • By any means necessary Shahenshah's survival story in Athens
        • Waiting among the dead
        • Your sentence
        • Even philosophers need to eat
        • Utopia for me Wherever you are, you are legal
        • 'Balochis want to reform the existing order'
        • Caste Schmaste
        • ‘We’re going to wait till May 12’
        • Simplifying the non-West
      • 2007
        • Success of understatement
      • 2006
        • A movement called Edward Said
        • The recent controversy about creativity in Urdu is already archaic
        • "I do not write cold, detached prose"- interview with Mazhar ul Islam
        • Don’t be dull
        • Neither aboriginal nor postcolonial - An interview with Mohsin Hamid
        • The horizon is an advertisement
      • 1994
        • A maestro of metaphors

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