1+ hour, 6+ min ago   (1514+ words) KARACHI: In the crowded heart of old Karachi, where traffic, shops and the noise of daily commerce often overshadow the city’s historical identity, an old landmark quietly tells the story of another Karachi. Standing at the intersection of M.A. Jinnah…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (506+ words) In The Midnight Train, an 81-year-old London bookstore owner named Wilbur Budd suffers a massive heart attack and awakens near death on a fog-enshrouded railway platform. There, he encounters an enigmatic Conductor operating a vintage locomotive known as the Midnight…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1307+ words) Travel is easy to undertake, convenient to describe, difficult to write, and harder still to write well about. Anyone can recount a journey. Few can turn a journey into literature that changes the way we see the world. Paul Theroux…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (353+ words) Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), the Italian master whose short stories probe the instability of identity, sanity, and social masks, did so in works like The Oil Jar. Albert Camus (1913–1960) explored existential absurdism through both philosophy and concise narrative fiction, such as in…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (386+ words) There's a particular kind of dread that has nothing to do with the exam itself. It arrives after the paper is over, while the result is still pending, when a student starts rehearsing how the conversation at home will go…...

4+ week, 22+ hour ago   (1857+ words) Around Drigh Road, my taxi driver asked if he could play some music. I nodded, but he did not start it. When we reached the Sassui Toll Plaza on the N-5 National Highway, near Gharo, I asked why he had not…...