BOOKS IN BRIEF – Newspaper

Communicate Up

Mohiuddin Zia Siddiqi

On this dictionary of kinds, the writer offers easy explanations and meanings of social media terminology and internet-specific abbreviations, which can be fairly useful to anybody who may need scratched their head questioning what ‘bae’ truly means and why anyone is ‘poking’ them. Extra chapters function a useful reference to English colloquialisms, mostly used idioms, worthwhile quotations and proverbs from Japan, Sweden, Russia and extra.

My Seven Many years’ Journey By means of British India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Mirza Nurul Huda

An economist and tutorial, the writer revisits his life from studying to write down on banana leaves with twig pens and ink made by mixing firewood ash with water, to incomes a doctoral diploma from Princeton College. After serving in varied authorities capacities in Pakistan, he moved to Bangladesh in 1971 and have become advisor to the president, upon whose assassination he served as vice chairman for 4 months.

Parchhaiyyan

Shahid Hussain

On this assortment of beforehand printed profiles of a large assortment of personalities, the writer writes on former editor of Daybreak Saleem Asmi, revered tutorial Dr Syed Jaffer Ahmed, diplomat and former ambassador Dr Masuma Hasan, human rights activist I.A. Rahman, American journalist and international affairs correspondent Laura King and plenty of extra from the worlds of politics, the humanities and humanities. The e book additionally consists of discussions on the water wars, the Indus Water Treaty and self-censorship.

Naadeeda Shehr

Shehla Naqvi

In 1972, Italian author and journalist Italo Calvino printed his novel Le città invisibili, which was translated into English as Invisible Cities. Introduced as a dialogue between Mongol emperor Kublai Khan and Venetian explorer Marco Polo, the e book consists of temporary poems describing 55 fictitious cities, that are allegories for tradition, language, reminiscence and the final nature of the human expertise. The e book now involves the Urdu viewers courtesy this translation by poet, fiction author and translator Naqvi.

Printed in Daybreak, Books & Authors, September 18th, 2022