The South Asian Idea
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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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Economics and Religion
There was a two-page lead article in Dawn on Eid ul Azha this year about the economics of the event highlighting its significance by pegging the related spending at 60 percent of the state’s annual development expenditure.
Summary of Artic...
The Peshawar Review - Issue 6, June 2026
The June issue of The Peshawar Review is ready for reading. Harbans Mukhia remembers his days at Kirori Mal College where he found the legendary K. M. Ashraf as a mentor. Kabir Altaf has another translation from Bilal Hasan Minto’s collecti...
Announcement: Books on Classical Music
Readers interested in classical music might wish to look at the following books:
Anjum Altaf
A Modern Introduction to Indian Music and Other Essays with a primer on the physics of sound
Published in India and Pakistan
Kabir Altaf – Two...
The Peshawar Review - Issue 5, May 2026
I am pleased that the May issue of The Peshawar Review (No. 5) has been uploaded with a varied menu on offer. Brian Bassanio Paul shares a poignant essay on love and loss; Sayed Amjad Hussain offers light relief recalling his struggles with...
On the Inhumanity of Humanity
[In view of the unimaginable events of the past few years, I am reproducing an essay I wrote in August 2010.]
I had been intending to explore why, throughout history, man has been the perpetrator of so much inhuman behavior and what, if an...
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Dr Anjum Altaf earned his PhD from Stanford University. He was Professor of Economics and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
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