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Where’s the wit? Why English Op-Eds are so serious

The absence of humour writing in English newspapers has been an intriguing question for me. In Urdu newspapers these dXays, Ata-ul-Haq Qasmi and Gul-e-Nokheiz Akhtar constitute an irresistible attraction for readers – and that too when print media is past its heydays. The absence is more a matter of linguistics than anything else. The elitist […]

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