L: New NYRB edition of "Basti" by Intizar Husain; R: Husain at the Karachi Literature Festival on February 5, 2011. (Karachi Literature Festival/Flickr) No summary of Basti can do justice to its ...

Pakistan is dropping English as its official language and switching to Urdu, a popular language in the Indian subcontinent. The long-rumored change was confirmed by Pakistani Minister of Planning, ...

The polity of our national confusion on most issues facing the country stems from the unresolved adoption of a single medium of instruction in schools. Living in a part of Lahore, which is the ...

An image from a winter morning in Hyderabad, Pakistan, when I was four, forms my earliest memory of literacy. Bundled up in layers of sweaters, I am reciting from an Urdu newspaper as I sit astride my ...