Before writers embark on the long and arduous yet thrilling journey that is writing a story, script, or screenplay, they must have a solid story idea. Once your story is solid, new writers may take longer to reach the right producer – but it will happen. The National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) recently presented […] The post Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely: A Play That Depicts Production Itself appeared first on The Friday Times - Naya Daur.
“Enforced disappearances in Pakistan have become a routine occurrence,” the Asian Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday. Authorities have accepted this as standard law enforcement practice, the commission said in a statement released on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. The AHRC said both, the government and judiciary were […] The post ‘Routine Occurrence’: Rights Organisations Pan Pakistan Over Enforced Disappearances appeared first on The Friday Times - Naya Daur.
Soniah Kamal is an award-winning Pakistani-American novelist, essayist and public speaker based in the US. Her first novel An Isolated Incident was a finalist for the KLF French Fiction Prize and the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Unmarriageable, Kamal’s second work of fiction and a postcolonial parallel retelling of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice, is […] The post Letters To Kashmir And Empire appeared first on The Friday Times - Naya Daur.