Nida Kirmani

1 month ago | dawn.com | Elena Armas |Rehana Alam |Abbas Nasir |Nida Kirmani

The Fiancé DilemmaBy Elena ArmasSimon & SchusterISBN: 978-1-3985-2224-4413pp. Elena Armas, author of The Fiancé Dilemma, is a chemical engineer by profession. According to her own admission, she is a hopeless romantic and an avid reader of ‘HEAS’, or ‘Happily Ever After Stories.’ While working as an engineer, she decided to write one of her favourite type of books herself. She produced her debut novel in 2021 and titled it The Spanish Love Deception.

1 month ago | dawn.com | Harris Khalique |Abbas Nasir |Nida Kirmani |Muhammad Amir Rana

Many years ago, the late poet, critic and broadcaster Qamar Jameel scribed his poetry collection Chahaar Khwaab [Four Dreams] for me and wrote: “Khwaab mein jo kuchh dekh raha hoon, uss ka dikhana mushkil hai/ Aaeney mein phool khila hai, haath lagana mushkil hai [What I see in my dream is hard to show to others/ A flower blossoms in the mirror which is hard to touch].” This couplet immediately came to my mind when I picked up Ghalib: Flowers in a Mirror, A Critical Commentary by Mehr Afshan...

Dec 22, 2023 | dawn.com | Nida Kirmani

ACCORDING to Pakistan’s 2023 census, our country’s population has officially surpassed the 240 million mark — an increase of 33.8m people since the previous census in 2017. The growth rate jumped from 2.4 per cent in 2017 to 2.55pc in 2023, which is a worrying reversal of what was an otherwise downward trend. Over two decades ago, Pakistan committed to reaching replacement-level population growth rates (2.1pc) by 2020.