Selling Oranges in a Banana Republic is an insubordinate and irreverent collection of poetry and prose that emerged from the malaise of 90s Karachi, Pakistan. Published when the author was 18, its noir poems, vignettes and stories are replete with unusual and often disquieting themes and titles such as “Aphrpodisiacs for Complacency”, “Rape the Nation”, “Using your Deodorant” and “Yazdani and the Measle of Jealousy”. SOBR is a rumination on politics and change, love and revolution, and above all, insufficiency.
Javed Jabbar is no ordinary man and no ordinary father. To catalogue his talents, roles and achievements is no easy task. He is a writer, speaker, conservationist, former senator and minister, film-maker, documentarian, mass communications expert, intellectual, social activist, policy analyst and aficionado of all things sweet and chocolaty. Our father is a man who […]
