Literature - 8

Indian publishers will exhibit their books in a fair to be held in Lahore next March after Pakistan publishers participated as special guest in weeklong Delhi Book Fair, concluded on Sunday. Pakistani books have received great interest and response from the Indian people, displayed at the Fair by 12 publishers and over 200 people along [...]

The ground reality, strong and firm beneath the dulcet notes of diplomatic diatribes and foreign office blessed trains, buses and cricket matches is that Allama Mohammad Iqbal may still be the most sought after Urdu poet on this side of the border. If the marketplace is the best yardstick of popular predilection, he definitely is, [...]

For the first time, Pakistani books will find a place in Indian institutions through Indian bookstores following a distribution agreement between two private publishers from the two countries. The agreement was inked recently between Delhi-based Foundation Books and Pakistan’s Vanguard Books. Vanguard has published many original books that no one dared to print in Pakistan [...]

An American university has included illustrations of the first Pakistani female cartoonist, Nigar Nazar, in its two books, a press release here Saturday said. The Career Center of the University of Oregon, USA, in a letter have expressed their appreciation and gratitude to Nigar Nazar of Gogi fame, for her valuable contribution in illustrating their [...]

Close on the heels of the bus and train service, the Indian publishing sector is now establishing links with Pakistan. Vanguard Books, Pakistan’s leading publishing house run by editor-publisher Najam Sethi, enters distribution agreement with Foundation Books of India. For the first time, books from Pakistan will find place in Indian educational institutions through Indian [...]

The Delhi Book Fair this year will have an added attraction: a simultaneous job fair.More than 50 MNCs are participating in the fair, which begins on Saturday. There are up to 300 jobs on offer. Meanwhile, keeping in view the increasing Indo-Pak bonhomie, Pakistan would be the theme country at the book fair. Besides 80 [...]

A writer [who] belongs to the remote Northern Areas has been awarded ‘best book writing award’ for her book on the people and culture of Baltistan. Uzma Saleem, has been selected for the award by the National Book Foundation Islamabad for her book titled “Bay Say Bachary, Bay Say Baltistan”…

For India and Pakistan, mid-August brings with it thoughts of the Other. In Independence Day flag unfurling and homage paying, memories of division are never too far away. It is not that August 14-15 elicits pangs of betrayal. It is more that the two-day affair offers a peg to situate a larger inquiry. An inquiry [...]

The English may be a foreign language, but it is international in its significance. It is rightly taken as the lingua franca, the common language in all parts of the world today. There is need to learn and use it in our country even though we also need to develop and adopt our own national [...]

Books may be a man — or a woman’s — best friend, but they may soon be pressed into the service of warming up the frost that still defines India-Pakistan ties. So, when External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh meets his counterpart Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on September 5-6, he will ask him to allow Indian [...]