Disastrous deluges have displaced species including jackals, deer and jungle cats
Displacement increases risks of human-wildlife conflict and retaliatory killings, say experts
Aquatic species such as Indus River dolphins, freshwater turtles and crocodiles are also threatened
Aamir Latif
KARACHI, Sindh,
Bhashanagar magazine celebrated the 91st birth anniversary of poet and novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay at the Bangla Academy Sabhaghar, Kolkata. The evening was touched by reverence and memory, where words, music, and voices came together in homage. Among the honoured guests were Swati Gangopadhyay, Sunil’s lifelong companion; veteran
With steadfast tread I climbed triumph’s towering illusion,
Mistaking vain success for life’s sovereign culmination.
Dr. Sajid Hussain, a renowned poet from Rawalpindi, Punjab province of Pakistan shares his poetry on humanity and nature
Dr. Sajid Hussain, born on February 1, 1969, in Morgah, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, is
Ashraf Aboul-Yazid’s A Backyard Garden is a profoundly human, polyphonic novel set in contemporary Egypt. It weaves together the lives of individuals in the village of Kafr El-Sarai, focusing particularly on the enigmatic figure of Sayyid Kamal—a hero of the Egyptian independence movement who retreats from public life to live
In 1964, in Paris, the global Egyptian star Omar Sharif was filming his famous movie Doctor Zhivago. He was living at the time with his British actor friend Sir Tom Courtenay in the same apartment. Sharif noticed Courtenay’s deep passion for the results of the English football team Hull City, which was then playing in the second