Books

  • #itscomplicated: People’s Edgy Yet Soulful Relationship With Pakistan

    #itscomplicated: People’s Edgy Yet Soulful Relationship With Pakistan

    Home #itscomplicated, the latest book by Abu Dhabi based author, Saba Karim Khan, was launched at the Karachi Literature Festival this month. The book is already in its next print run. Home #itscomplicated rests on one conviction: Pakistan—home to over 240 million people, 70-80 languages and fascinating natural diversity—cannot...
  • Digital Book Launch: Sum of Worlds

    Digital Book Launch: Sum of Worlds

    Ananke, in collaboration with independent, award-winning publishing house Yoda Press, is organizing an exclusive digital book launch: ‘Sum of Worlds – A Conversation with Naima Rashid’ on February 20th, 2025 at 1.00 PM UK, 5.00 PM UAE, 6.30 PM India . Naima Rashid is an author, poet and translator...
  • Nosferatu: Exploring Societal Manifestations of Darkness

    Nosferatu: Exploring Societal Manifestations of Darkness

    Art imitates life. It not only mirrors society, but also supplies a mirror through which social norms, taboos, stereotypes and deeply entrenched belief systems can be discovered by a discerning eye. Indeed, as with all other societal manifestations, darkness can be easily transported, translated and expressed in art form....
  • On Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing

    On Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing

    Buy the Book In Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (Published by Anthem Press, 2022, also available at Folio Press), the author, Amina Yaqin takes us on a journey into the vibrant yet understudied domain of progressive women’s poetry in Urdu, presenting a deeply nuanced and rigorous...
  • Author Safinah Danish Elahi’s novel shortlisted for prestigious Asian Fiction Prize 2023.

    Author Safinah Danish Elahi’s novel shortlisted for prestigious Asian Fiction Prize 2023.

    Pakistani author Safinah Danish Elahi’s contemporary fiction novel, The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Asian Fiction Prize 2023. Previously long-listed from a selection of thirteen writers, the shortlist includes writers from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Nigeria and the only novel from Pakistan...
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