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  • The Comeback: A Socio-cultural Commentary On Systemic Inequalities, Personal Betrayals And Commodification Of Art

    The Comeback is a restrained yet incisive exploration of friendship, betrayal, artistic integrity, and the elusive nature of success. Set against the backdrop of the entertainment industry and small-town theatre, the novel weaves a poignant tale of two men—John K., a once-rising film star grappling with his fading relevance,...
  • Readomania, Ananke Continue To Powering On For Literature Festival 2025

    Readomania, Ananke Continue To Powering On For Literature Festival 2025

    The 2025 edition of Ananke’s Festival of Literature welcomes another year of meaningful collaboration with one of its key allies, Readomania. The three-day digital event, beginning on April 29th and concluding on World Labor Day, May 1st, 2025 will live-stream engaging panel discussions and dialogue on its YouTube Page....
  • Exploring Imagined Worlds as Vehicles For Truth, Justice at Ananke LitFest

    Exploring Imagined Worlds as Vehicles For Truth, Justice at Ananke LitFest

    Fantasy and speculative fiction offer more than escape—they reflect real-world struggles and challenge existing power structures. This time around, Ananke’s Festival of Literature 2025 unveils a series of engaging sessions where authors, critics and creatives discuss how imagined worlds become vehicles for truth, justice, and rebellion. The three-day, digital...
  • The Kitchen: A Space of Creation, Control, and Confinement

    The Kitchen: A Space of Creation, Control, and Confinement

    The kitchen has long been a contested space in a woman’s life. A place of both nourishment and negotiation, creation, and confinement. It is where traditions are preserved, family bonds are reinforced, and yet, it is also where a woman’s autonomy is often reduced to routine. The relationship between...
  • Ananke Empower Fellowship Program Collaborates With The Citizen Foundation’s In Its Youth Empowerment Initiative

    Ananke Empower Fellowship Collaborates With The Citizens Foundation For Its Youth Empowerment Initiative

    Ananke’s flagship training and mentoring program, Empower, has recently partnered with one of Pakistan’s leading education and development organizations, The Citizens Foundation (TCF) for its youth empowerment initiative. Selected fellows of the program will also take part in the upcoming Ananke Festival of Literature 2025, happening on April 29th...
  • On Unwell Women, Male Entitlement And Their Visionary Wokeness

    On Unwell Women, Male Entitlement And Their Visionary Wokeness

    A Woman’s body… piece by piece, inch by inch, navigated, investigated, desecrated! From the sacrilegious murder of the Greco-Egyptian philosopher, astronomer and one of the first female mathematicians, Hypatia, on the streets of Alexandria by the parabalani – a volunteer militia of monks serving as the archbishop’s henchmen –...
  • #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...
  • Reclaiming Anger

    This article is part of Ananke’s 10th anniversary special, whicb can be viewed here. Anger is a powerful emotion, and perhaps why it has historically been denied to women. It has been (and continues to be) a male privilege. Women hesitate to show their anger publicly because they have...
  • 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...
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