Our Lady of Alice Bhatti: A critical review

By Ullah, Inam Gul. Hanif parts with his usual motifs and recurrent scenes of jets, flights, engines and life of cadets and professional soldiers, which are common features of his two other novels: ACase of Exploding Mangoes and The Red Birds, in Our Lady of Alice Bhatti. The novel centers on the Christian community...

Categories: Englis novel English novels. Mohammad Hanif Our lady of Alice Bhatti Pakistani literature in English South Asian literature

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Red Birds: A critical review

By Ullah, Inam Gul Brilliantly written by Hanif, the novel draws a critical sketch of US addiction to the venture of war and destruction, its twofold strategy of destruction through war and reconstruction through its agencies, the plight of the refugees camps, the sorry state of refugees’ children and a detailed...

Categories: Mohammad Hanif Pakistani literature in English Red Birds review/summary of Red Birds. South Asian literature

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A Case of Exploding Mangoes: A Critical Review

The military junta headed by General Ziaulhaq, ruling Pakistan for eleven long and dark years ends up in a plane crash loaded with mangoes; the ripe mangoes explode and consume the top brass along with foreign VIPs in C 130 back from Bahawalpur. The reasons need not to be dealt with in depth, however, the regime...

Categories: A Case of Exploding Mangoes dictators and martial laws. English novel Gen Ziaulhaq Mohammad Hanif Pakistani literature in English

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Broken Verses: A critical review

The story of the novel tells about Asmani’s quest for her mother and her lover’s whereabouts who have been disappeared for years. After every discovery and information about their death, she gives herself a new hope of their being alive and keeps searching. The hunt takes her to the circles of literati, journalists,...

Categories: Broken verses by Shamsie. dictators and martial laws English literature English novels Kamila Shamsie political history of Pakistan

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The Forty Rules of Love: A critical Review

On the face of it, it may seem odd that love has a rule let alone forty, however, delved deep into the novel one may find that the rules are not meant to create distance, make the lovers observe formalities and be polite and sophisticated in their contact with the ‘one’ they love, rather the other way round, “ love...

Categories: Elif Shafak English literature English novels postcolonial novels The Forty Rules of Love. Turkish literature

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The Discourse of Pashtun Nationalism

Federation is always deemed as a viable project of statecraft especially in countries with a diverse population  divided along ethnic and linguistic lines. The underlying rationale of a federal organization of state is primarily meant to ensure maximum participation of all the ethnic groups in the state...

Categories: Bacha Khan Khudai Khidmatgar Movement Pashtun Nationalism. PTM

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