Arts
Rana Begum’s Public Artwork: Interplay of light, form, nature, architecture
The ambitious, site-specific installations No.1187 Mesh and No. 1193 Mesh by Rana Begum (born 1977 in Sylhet, Bangladesh), commissioned by...
Birds and Us
Excerpts from Jesse Russell's book review at The Hedgehog Review: In his recent work Birds and Us, British ornithologist Tim...
Meatballs | کوفتے
ایک دن میری دادی نے میرے والد سے پوچھا کہ انہوں نے مجھے کیوں مارا کیوں کہ میں سب سے...
How To…
Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Adil Khan, Ajaz Ahmed, Anwar Abbas, Arif Mirza, Aziz Ahmed, Bawar Tawfik, Dr. Razzak Ladha, Dr....
‘Heech’ or ‘Nothingness’: The Face of a Dervish
The art of attaining closeness to God via the annihilation of the ego which includes not only the base self but...
Africa’s Century of Growth?
On Morten Jerven’s The Wealth and Poverty of African States (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Review by Alden Young in the...
The Hunt For Red October
IRSHAD SALIM: Every year, as October comes, I recall a few nuggets from my memory bank, and reminisce them. One...
Karachi is Volatile, But London is Bland
Kamila Shamsie's new novel, “Best of Friends” chosen as a book of 2022 by The Guardian, Observer, Daily Mail and...
The Photographic Search for True Pakistan
Girls and kids are us - in Islamabad: Smitten (transgender)! Sunflowers on a bike Three is not a crowd (yet)...
