Poetry, economics and our future

History shows Afghanistan as a hub of civilisation, not a perpetual battlefield

Punjab’s anti–land grabbing law has triggered a constitutional clash over power, process, property rights

Hafiz, Ghalib's poetry on suffering as a way of knowing, practising mindfulness in calamity

Bijnori's critique of Asrar-e-Khudi and Rumuz-e-Bekhudi, a luminous literary reflection of Iqbal's metaphysics

When its rhythm becomes a metaphor for life’s fragility

From Bucephalus to Rakhsh, Laili to Jalaluddin's steed, these horses carry stories of courage, defiance, love

Maharaja Ranjeet Singh’s timeless jest exposes Pakistan’s bloated bureaucracy: heavy on hierarchy, light on service

What South Asia lost after independence was not structure, it was soul

Dr Frances Pritchett has become Divan-e-Ghalib's most faithful reader and interpreter