Kanwal Mukhtar

Kanwal kommt aus Lahore in Pakistan hat englische Literatur und Kulturwissenschaften studiert. Sie ist Journalistin, Lektorin und Autorin und liebt die Arbeit mit Kindern. Zurzeit schreibt sie an ihrem ersten Gedichtband sowie einem Roman. In ihrer Freizeit liest Kanwal sehr viel und beschäftigt sich mit Bewegungstherapie und Yoga.

In his film A Touch of Sin, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke brings to life, beautifully, the stories of “those people who have been left behind”.

Wingless Dreamer is pleased to launch the poetry book, ‘An evening with Emily Dickinson’ in honor of the greatest American poet Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. An evening with Emily Dickinson is a collection of poetical works, the scope of which is as varied as it is entertaining. This book spotlights some of the groundbreaking poets working around the world today.

After working as a freelance writer and editor for several international publications including the Elephant Journal, Miss Mukhtar took the next step by starting lectureship at Government College University, Lahore where she taught English language and literature.

Miss Mukhtar holds an 8.5 band in the IELTS exam herself, and is an extraordinary literature enthusiast and teacher. Hence, for those of us struggling with English as a second language, she will be the most perfect coach.

April 2019 - special edition of the internal newsletter of Nextbridge Pvt Ltd.

Sometimes when I close my eyes to sleep at night, I can hear the collective screaming, crying and sighing of generations upon generations of women: raped, forced to bear children, forced to give away their children, forced to provide nourishment to the man who would then use his strength to tyrannize them, forced to give up all they held dear for the sake of complete obedience to men in the name of religion, their dreams snatched from their eyes, beaten and bruised, mutilated, and killed...

We met in an unconventional way, you and I—on Twitter, to be precise. You had a clever wit combined with a careless, youthful manner that immediately attracted me. You see, while your manner had a youthful carelessness about it, it did not mask the fact you were more intelligent than any boy your age I had ever met. Everything you said had an astuteness about it—you had brains. I have always been a sucker for intelligence.

This is a textbook prepared by the Provincial Curriculum and Textbook Board of the Government, for Home Economics taught solely to girls in sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Unlike the title, the books do not teach them how to manage their finances successfully in life, but instead teach them how to cook and clean and be perfect housewives. The textbook is usually divided into two sections—the first one is comprised of cooking recipes and the second one teaches how to stitch and knit and other household chores.

“Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Rilke said this some 113 years ago and while we may think that we are living in a world today where his prognosis has come true, there still are women all over the world who are as far from being empowered as they were 113 years ago