Tag: Bina Shah

WE still haven’t figured out exactly who Mohammad Ali Jinnah — Quaid-i-Azam — is or was, even in 2024. Westernised liberal secular, or champion of religious freedom for Muslims? Brilliant … Read More

WHEN I was a teenager, the world was divided between the First World and Third World, terms first defined by the French anthropologist Alfred Sauvy in 1952. The First World … Read More

THERE is a Stephen Spielberg movie called Minority Report, based on a Philip K. Dick science fiction novella set in the year 2054. Tom Cruise plays a police officer who … Read More

IT’S a question that writers and artists have always asked themselves: in times of difficulty, stress, chaos and darkness, what role can art and literature serve humanity? In Pakistan, we … Read More

INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day is in March. Throughout the month, there are wo­men’s rights marches, celebrations, and conferences, globally and in Pakistan. Du­­r­ing the same month, the new federal and provincial … Read More

LAST week, a story about artificial intelligence turned the literary world upside down. The Atlantic reported that 183,000 books were used without permission of the authors to train artificial intelligence … Read More